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Vulnerability and critical theory

Ferrarese, Estelle, author, Corcoran, Steve, translator

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\"In Vulnerability and Critical Theory, Estelle Ferrarese identifies contemporary developments on the theme of vulnerability within critical theory while also seeking to reconstruct an idea of vulnerability that enables an articulation of the political and demonstrates how it is socially produced. Philosophies that take vulnerability as a moral object contribute to rendering the political, as the site of a specific power and action, foreign to vulnerability and the notion of recognition offered by critical theory does not correct this deficit. Instead, Ferrarese argues that vulnerability, as susceptibility to a harmful event, is above all a breach of normative expectations. She demonstrates that these expectations are not mental phenomena but are situated between subjects and must even be conceived as institutions. On this basis she argues that the link between the political and vulnerability cannot be reduced to the institutional implementation of moral principles. Rather she seeks to rethink the political by taking vulnerability as the starting point and thereby understands the political as simultaneously referring to the advent of a world, the emergence of a relation, and the appearance of a political subject\"--Page 4 of cover.

• Publisher: Brill
• Subject: Critical theory. / Vulnerability (Personality trait) Philosophy. / Vulnerability (Personality trait) Political aspects.
• ISBN: 9789004281332, 9789004367906, 900436790X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HM480.F47 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE