The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity

by Sara Rushing

Within the liberal tradition, the physical body has been treated as a focus of rights discussion and a source of economic and democratic value; it needs protection but it is also one's dominion, tool, and property, and thus something over which we should be able to exercise free will. However, the day-to-day reality of how we live in our bodies and how we make choices about them is not something over which we can exercise full control. In this way,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197516645
• ISBN13: 9780197516645
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"