The Challenges of Vulnerability: In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life

By Barbara A. Misztal

Book Overview

Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230222749
• ISBN13: 9780230222748
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"