Vulnerability and Critical Theory

Identifying contemporary developments on the theme of vulnerability within critical theory, Ferrarese seeks to reconstruct an idea of vulnerability that enables an articulation of the political and demonstrates how it is socially produced. She covers the vulnerable and the geometer: contemporary uses of the concept of vulnerability in the social sciences, contemporary moral philosophy: three models of vulnerability and three accompanying problems, vulnerability according to critical theory: recognition and normative expectations, and perspectives: thinking vulnerability and the political through together. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Political Philosophy at Amiens University. 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 Universitat as well as research fellow at the Marc Bloch Franco-German Center of Social Science Research in Berlin. Her books include: Ethique et politique de l'espace public. Habermas et la discussion (Paris, Vrin, 2015); Qu’est-ce que lutter pour la reconnaissance? (Lormont, Editions Le Bord de l’Eau, 2013). She is also the author of numerous articles on Critical Theory, deliberative democracy, vulnerability and feminist theory.