Rethinking Vulnerability and Exclusion (eBook)

Historical and Critical Essays

Blanca Rodríguez Lopez, Nuria Sánchez Madrid, Adriana Zaharijević (Herausgeber)

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2021
XXIX, 232 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-60519-3 (ISBN)

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This volume offers novel and provocative insights into vulnerability and exclusion, two concepts crucial for the understanding of contemporary political agency. In twelve critical essays, the contributors explore the dense theoretical content, complex histories and conceptual intersection of vulnerability and exclusion. A rich array of topics are covered as the volume searches for the ways that vulnerable and excluded groups relate to each other, where the boundary between the excluded and the included arises, and what the stakes of 'invulnerability' might be.

Drawing on the works of Hegel (via Judith Butler), Helmuth Plessner and Hannah Arendt to situate the project in a solid historical context, the volume likewise tackles pressing and contemporary issues such as the state of human capital under neoliberalism, the flawed nature of democracy itself, and the vulnerability inherent in extreme precarity, extreme violence, and interdependence. The contributions come from philosophers with a range of backgrounds in social philosophy and critical social sciences, who use related conceptual tools to tackle the political challenges of the 21^st century. Together, they present a ground-breaking overview of the main challenges which social exclusion presents to contemporary global societies.

Blanca Rodríguez López is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Society at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.

Nuria Sánchez Madrid is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Society at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.

Adriana Zaharijevi? is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.1.2021
• Zusatzinfo: XXIX, 232 p.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Environmental Ethics • Feminism • Global capitalism • Global Justice • interdependence • Judith Butler • Participation • political agency • Rejection • Representation • Social Exclusion • Violence • vulnerability
• ISBN-10: 3-030-60519-1 / 3030605191
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-60519-3 / 9783030605193