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    This document summarizes a book titled "Vulnerability and Critical Theory" published in 2018. The book was authored by Estelle Ferrarese from the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. In the book, Ferrarese identifies developments in the theme of vulnerability within critical theory. She also seeks to reconstruct an idea of vulnerability that enables an articulation of the political and demonstrates how vulnerability is socially produced. Ferrarese argues that vulnerability refers to susceptibility to harm and is a breach of normative expectations, and that these expectations are situated between subjects and can be considered institutions.

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    Vulnerability and Critical Theory
    Author: Estelle Ferrarese

    In Vulnerability and Critical Theory, Estelle Ferrarese identifies contemporary


    developments on the theme of vulnerability within critical theory while also
    Print Publication Date:
    seeking to reconstruct an idea of vulnerability that enables an articulation of 26 Jul 2018
    the political and demonstrates how it is socially produced. Philosophies that
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    take vulnerability as a moral object contribute to rendering the political, as • Paperback

    the site of a specific power and action, foreign to vulnerability and the notion
    ISBN: 9789004281332
    of recognition offered by critical theory does not correct this deficit. Instead,
    Ferrarese argues that vulnerability, as susceptibility to a harmful event, is Extent: vi, 88 pp.
    above all a breach of normative expectations. She demonstrates that these Language: anglais
    expectations are not mental phenomena but are situated between subjects Publisher: BRILL
    and must even be conceived as institutions. On this basis she argues that the
    link between the political and vulnerability cannot be reduced to the Series:
    Brill Research Perspec­
    institutional implementation of moral principles. Rather she seeks to rethink tives
    the political by taking vulnerability as the starting point and thereby Subjects: Ethics & Moral
    understands the political as simultaneously referring to the advent of a world, Philosophy, Philosophy,
    19th & 20th Century Phi­
    the emergence of a relation, and the appearance of a political subject.
    losophy, Philosophy

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