Introduction: Vulnerability: A Concept with Which to Undo the World As It Is?
Estelle Ferrarese
1. The Rise of Uncertainties
Robert Castel
2. The Boundaries of the "We:" Cruelty, Responsibility and Forms of Life
Veena Das
3. "On the Whole We Don’t:" Michel Foucault, Veena Das and Sexual Violence
Penelope Deutscher
4. Politics of Vulnerability and Responsibility for Ordinary Others
Sandra Laugier
5. The Vulnerable and the Political: On the Seeming Impossibility of Thinking Vulnerability and the Political Together and Its Consequences
Estelle Ferrarese
6. Accounts of Injury as Misappropriations of Race: Towards a Critical Black Politics of Vulnerability
Noémi Michel
7. All of Us Are Vulnerable, But Some Are More Vulnerable than Others: The Political Ambiguity of Vulnerability Studies, an Ambivalent Critique
Alyson Cole
Biography
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.
