ABSTRACT
In this section I continue to investigate selfhood and community and how the relationship between the two affects notions of responsibility and judgment. I begin with the question of selfhood and relate this to the issue of moral responsibility and how a community (a social audience) comes to blame a person for wrongdoing. My argument is that audiences’ reactions to a person who has done wrong reflect an ontological ambiguity in selfhood, which arises from the dialectical relationship between selfhood and community. This argument retains the emphasis found in Giddens on the relationship between self and community, but insists, in a context of the continuing existence of community, on the persistent situatedness and relationality of the self.
