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

Erinn. Gilson
Bok · Engelsk · 2013 · Electronic books.

Annen tittel	Ethics of Vulnerability
Utgitt	Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2013.
Omfang	1 online resource (202 p.)
Opplysninger	Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I The Normative Significance of Vulnerability; 1 Responsibility for the Vulnerable; Acknowledging Vulnerability and Dependence; Alleviating Vulnerability; The Implications of a Reductively Negative View of Vulnerability; 2 Thinking Vulnerability with Judith Butler; Vulnerability, Precariousness, and Precarity; Violence, Vulnerability, and Norms; The Normativity of Vulnerability; Critical Comments; PART II Analyzing Avoidance and Disavowal; 3 The Ideal of Invulnerability; The Pursuit of Invulnerability. - ""force in their fragility"": The Experience of Vulnerability in Cixous6 Vulnerability in Social Life: Sexuality and Pornography; Sexuality, Embodiment, and Ambiguity; Vulnerability, Invulnerability, and Pornography; Responding to Pornography; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. - Invulnerability and OppressionEpistemic Vulnerability; 4 Risk and Control: The Formation of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity; Danger and Risk through a Foucaultian Lens; Shaping the Self through the Management of Risk; Risk, Privatization, and Responsibility; An Exemplary Case of the Perils of Privatization: Vulnerability and Food; Part III Rethinking Vulnerability; 5 Vulnerability Beyond Opposition; Openness to the World: Rethinking Passivity with Merleau-Ponty; Vulnerability as an Ontological Concept: Resources from Deleuze's Philosophy of Difference. - 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 such demarcations matters, how one deals with one's own vulnerability matters, and how one understands the meaning of vulnerability matters. Yet, the meaning of vulnerability is commonly taken for
Emner	Feminist theory Vulnerability (Personality trait) Gender & Ethnic Studies Gender Studies & Sexuality Vis mer... Social Sciences feminisme kvinnefrigjøring feministisk teori analyse
Sjanger	Electronic books.
Dewey	305.4201
ISBN	0415656133. - 9780415656139