ISBN:
9789004367906
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900436790X
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9789004281332
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9004281339
Language:
English
Pages:
88 Seiten
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Brill research perspectives
Series Statement:
Critical theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ferrarese, Estelle Vulnerability and critical theory
DDC:
100
Keywords:
Vulnerability (Personality trait)
;
Critical theory
;
Vulnerability (Personality trait)
;
Critical theory
Abstract:
Introduction -- Part 1. The vulnerable and the geometer : contemporary uses of the concept of vulnerability in the social sciences -- 1.1. Vulnerable cities, territories, populations and individuals : risk -- 1.2. The risk of poverty -- 1.3. Vulnerability as doubly filtered by the social sciences and philosophy -- Part 2. Contemporary moral philosophy : three models of vulnerability and three accompanying problems -- 2.1. Three competing models of vulnerability -- 2.2. The problem of the political -- Part 3. Vulnerability according to critical theory : recognition and normative expectations -- 3.1. Exercise of archaeology : the Mängelwesen -- 3.2. Vulnerability to misrecognition : an example of exposure to injury -- 3.3. Outline of a reconstructed notion of vulnerability -- Part 4. Perspectives : thinking vulnerability and the political through together -- 4.1. The political as sphere of deliberation -- 4.2. The political and political subjectivity -- 4.3. The political as common.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Simultaneously published as issue 1.2 (2016) of Critical Theory
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-88)
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