Vulnerability: Reflections on a New Ethical Foundation for Law and Politics

By Martha Albertson Fineman and Anna Grear

Book Overview

This book draws together major British and American scholars who present different perspectives on the concept of vulnerability and Fineman's 'vulnerability thesis'. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472421639
• ISBN13: 9781472421630
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"