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The Politics of Vulnerability (Paperback)
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Vulnerability is a concept with fleeting contours as much it is an
idea with assured academic success. In the United States,
torturable, "mutilatable," and killable bodies are a wide topic of
discussion, especially after September 11 and the ensuing
bellicosity. In Europe, current reflection on vulnerability has
emerged from a thematic of precarity and exclusion; the term evokes
lives that are dispensable, evictable, deportable, and the
abandoning of individuals to naked forces of the market. But if the
theme has had notable fortune, it also continues to come up against
considerable reluctance. The political scope of vulnerability is
often denied: it seems inevitably to be relegated to the sphere of
"good sentiments." This book aims to address this criticism. It
shows that by questioning our hegemonic anthropology, by
reinventing the categories of freedom, equality, and
being-in-common based on the body, by overthrowing the legitimate
grammar of political discourse, and by redefining the political
subject - the category of vulnerability, far from being
conservative or a-political, works to undo the world such as it is.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical
Horizons.
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