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Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and
geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for
critically engaging with the problem of vulnerability. The essays
here contained take the move from the COVID-19 pandemic, in order
to explore the inherent vulnerability of individuals, but also of
social, economic and political systems, and probe the descriptive
and prescriptive import of the concept.Each chapter provides a
self-contained perspective on vulnerability, as well as a specific
methodological framework for questioning its meaning. Taken
together, the chapters combine into a multi-disciplinary toolkit
for approaching the various forms and structures of vulnerability,
with a special attention to the intersectional factors shaping the
individual experience of it: from gender to age, from disability to
mental illness, from hospitalisation to incarceration. The
book explores the theoretical richness and complexity of the
concept and proposes new analytical approaches to it, before
illustrating its multifariousness through empirically grounded case
studies. The closing section engages with “the future of
vulnerability”, as a hermeneutic, epistemological, and
critical-normative perspective to be deployed beyond the domain of
global crises and emergencies.The volume is primarily intended as a
reference for scholars in the human, social and health sciences.
The accessible structure and plain language of the chapters make it
also a valuable didactic resource for graduate courses in
philosophy, the social sciences and public health.
This book presents a unique rethinking of G. W. F. Hegel's
philosophy from unusual and controversial perspectives in order to
liberate new energies from his philosophy. The role Hegel ascribes
to women in the shaping of society and family, the reconstruction
of his anthropological and psychological perspective, his approach
to human nature, the relationship between mental illness and social
disease, the role of the unconscious, and the relevance of
intercultural and interreligious pathways: All these themes reveal
new and inspiring aspects of Hegel's thought for our time.
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