TY - JOUR
T1 - Insurance in between
T2 - A critique of liability insurance and its principles
AU - Mei, Todd S.
N1 - Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Is liability insurance simply a necessary evil in todays climate of litigation Or does it have greater implications beyond its social and economic remit In this article, I argue that when the insurance policy is viewed hermeneutically as a text, its negligence-based definition of action supplants the understanding of responsibility, therefore having theological and philosophical implications. Insurance, in this sense, comes 'in between' humanity and its relation to others and fundamental ontological questions concerning the meaning of uncertainty and suffering.
AB - Is liability insurance simply a necessary evil in todays climate of litigation Or does it have greater implications beyond its social and economic remit In this article, I argue that when the insurance policy is viewed hermeneutically as a text, its negligence-based definition of action supplants the understanding of responsibility, therefore having theological and philosophical implications. Insurance, in this sense, comes 'in between' humanity and its relation to others and fundamental ontological questions concerning the meaning of uncertainty and suffering.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=43249138380&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/litthe/frl063
DO - 10.1093/litthe/frl063
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:43249138380
SN - 0269-1205
VL - 21
SP - 82
EP - 98
JO - Literature and Theology
JF - Literature and Theology
IS - 1
ER -