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The Ethics of Vulnerability: A Feminist Analysis of Social Life and Practice book cover

1st Edition

The Ethics of Vulnerability A Feminist Analysis of Social Life and Practice

By Erinn Gilson Copyright 2014
204 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge
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As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, sexuality, and embodiment have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. As a fundamental part of the human condition, vulnerability has significant ethical import: how one responds to vulnerability matters, whom one conceives as vulnerable and which criteria are used to make... Read more
Introduction Part 1: The Normative Significance of Vulnerability  1. Responsibility for the Vulnerable  2. Thinking Vulnerability with Judith Butler  Part 2: Avoidance and Disavowal 3. The Ideal of an Invulnerability  4. Risk and Control: The Formation of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity  Part 3: Rethinking Vulnerability  5. Vulnerability Beyond Opposition  6. Vulnerability in Social Life: Sexuality and Pornography Conclusion

Biography

Erinn C. Gilson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida, USA. Her research focuses on ethics and social thought from a feminist perspective and informed by contemporary European philosophy. She is currently exploring issues surrounding food ethics and the question of the significance of ethical failure.

"In this finely crafted analysis of vulnerability, Gilson integrates insights from philosophers such as Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze with the feminist analyses of Margaret Walker, Judith Butler, and Hélène Cixous to present a radical reinterpretation of the concept. Gilson's analysis displaces the many constricting dichotomies associated with the concept of vulnerability, such as weakness/strength, passivity/activity, dependence/independence, and femininity/masculinity.  This revised account opens up possibilities of ethical response and social critique hitherto obscured. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners."--S. A. Mason, CHOICE

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