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The Politics of Vulnerability

by Estelle Ferrarese

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 17.4 x 24.7 x 0.8 cm

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Vulnerability is a concept with fleeting contours as much it is an idea with assured academic success. In the United States, torturable, "mutilatable," and killable bodies are a wide topic of discussion, especially after September 11 and the ensuing bellicosity. In Europe, current reflection on vulnerability has emerged from a thematic of precarity and exclusion; the term evokes lives that are dispensable, evictable, deportable, and the abandoning of individuals to naked forces of the market. But if the theme has had notable fortune, it also continues to come up against considerable reluctance. The political scope of vulnerability is often denied: it seems inevitably to be relegated to the sphere of "good sentiments." This book aims to address this criticism. It shows that by questioning our hegemonic anthropology, by reinventing the categories of freedom, equality, and being-in-common based on the body, by overthrowing the legitimate grammar of political discourse, and by redefining the political subject - the category of vulnerability, far from being conservative or a-political, works to undo the world such as it is. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Horizons.
The Politics of Vulnerability and The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care
The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of CareThe Politics of Vulnerability

  • Author

    Estelle Ferrarese

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    March 2019

  • Weight

    250g

  • Dimensions

    17.4 x 24.7 x 0.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780367264802

  • ISBN-10

    0367264803

  • Eden Code

    4976745

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