Vulnerability is a concept with fleeting contours as much it is an idea with assured academic success. This book shows that by questioning our hegemonic anthropology and by redefining the political subject - vulnerability, far from being conservative or a-political, works to undo the world such as it is. It was originally published as a special issue of Critical Horizons.
Vulnerability is a concept with fleeting contours as much it is an idea with assured academic success. This book shows that by questioning our hegemonic anthropology and by redefining the political subject - vulnerability, far from being conservative or a-political, works to undo the world such as it is. It was originally published as a special issue of Critical Horizons.
Estelle Ferrarese is full-professor of moral and political philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Verne University, France. She has been a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, an Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Fellow at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, and a research fellow at the Marc Bloch Frano-German Center in Berlin.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Vulnerability: A Concept with Which to Undo the World As It Is? 2. The Rise of Uncertainties 3. The Boundaries of the "We:" Cruelty, Responsibility and Forms of Life 4. "On the Whole We Don't:" Michel Foucault, Veena Das and Sexual Violence 5. Politics of Vulnerability and Responsibility for Ordinary Others 6. The Vulnerable and the Political: On the Seeming Impossibility of Thinking Vulnerability and the Political Together and Its Consequences 7. Accounts of Injury as Misappropriations of Race: Towards a Critical Black Politics of Vulnerability 8. All of Us Are Vulnerable, But Some Are More Vulnerable than Others: The Political Ambiguity of Vulnerability Studies, an Ambivalent Critique
1. Introduction: Vulnerability: A Concept with Which to Undo the World As It Is? 2. The Rise of Uncertainties 3. The Boundaries of the "We:" Cruelty, Responsibility and Forms of Life 4. "On the Whole We Don't:" Michel Foucault, Veena Das and Sexual Violence 5. Politics of Vulnerability and Responsibility for Ordinary Others 6. The Vulnerable and the Political: On the Seeming Impossibility of Thinking Vulnerability and the Political Together and Its Consequences 7. Accounts of Injury as Misappropriations of Race: Towards a Critical Black Politics of Vulnerability 8. All of Us Are Vulnerable, But Some Are More Vulnerable than Others: The Political Ambiguity of Vulnerability Studies, an Ambivalent Critique
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