Vulnerability

Taylor & Francis

This book draws together major British and American scholars who present different perspectives on the concept of vulnerability and Fineman's \u2019vulnerability thesis\u2019. The collection demonstrates the broad and intellectually exciting potential of vulnerability as a theoretical foundation for legal and political engagements with a range of urgent contemporary challenges. Exploring ways in which vulnerability might provide a new ethical foundation for law and politics, it is of interest to the general reader, as well as academics and students in fields such as jurisprudence, philosophy, legal theory, political theory, feminist theory, and ethics. > Martha Albertson Fineman\u2019s earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the \u2019autonomous\u2019 subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her \u2019vulnerability thesis\u2019 represents the evolution o.