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Critical Horizons
A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory
Volume 17, 2016 - Issue 2: The Politics of Vulnerability
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Introduction

Vulnerability: A Concept with Which to Undo the World As It Is?

Pages 149-159 | Published online: 02 Jun 2016
 

Notes

1 Veena Das, Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).

2 Robert Castel, “De l'indigence à l’exclusion, la désaffiliation: Précarité du travail et vulnérabilité relationnelle,” in Face à l'exclusion: Le modèle français, ed. J. Donzelot (Paris: Esprit, 1991), 138.

3 Castel, “ De l'indigence à l’exclusion,” 167–8.

4 Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans. P. Hallward (London/New York: Verso, 2001), 22.

5 Adriana Cavarero, Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence, trans. W. McCuaig (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 8.

6 Joan C. Tronto, Moral Boundaries. A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (New York: Routledge, 1993), 121 et seq.

7 Erinn Gilson, “Vulnerability, Ignorance, and Oppression,” Hypathia 26.2 (2011): 318.

8 Tronto, Moral Boundaries, 162–5.

9 Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988), 56.

10 Eva Feder Kittay, “Human Dependency and Rawlsian Equality,” in Feminist Rethink the Self, ed. D. T. Meyers (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997), 219–66.

11 C. Mackenzie, W. Rogers and S. Dodds, eds., Vulnerability: New Ethics and Feminist Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 7–9.

12 Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. C. Porter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).

13 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993b), 199.

14 Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), 27–69.

15 Hannah Arendt, Was ist Politik? Fragmente aus dem Nachlass (Munich/Zurich: Piper, 1993a), 92.

16 Arendt, The Human Condition, 244 et seq.

17 See Pascale Molinier, “Le care à l’épreuve du travail,” in Le souci des autres. Éthique et politique du care, ed. P. Paperman and S. Laugier (Paris: Editions de l'EHESS, 2006), 302–3.

18 Eva F. Kittay, Love's Labor: Essay on Women, Equality and Dependency (New York: Routledge, 1999).

19 Paul Ricœur, “Autonomie et vulnérabilité,” in La justice et le mal, ed. A. Garapon and D. Salas (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1997), 166 et seq.

20 Judith Butler, Excitable Speech (New York: Routledge, 1997), 2.

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Notes on contributors

Estelle Ferrarese

Estelle Ferrarese is full professor of political and social theory at Strasbourg University. For the period 2015–2016 she is a research fellow at the Marc Bloch Franco-German Centre of Social Science Research, in Berlin. She has been a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin. Her books include: Ethique et politique de l'espace public. Habermas et la discussion (Paris: Vrin, 2015); and 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 and vulnerability as a political category.

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