Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures
eBook - ePub

Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures

Institutionalizing the Individual

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures

Institutionalizing the Individual

About this book

Vulnerability theory offers an alternative to social-contract and rights-based paradigms. Beginning with the corporeal body, the theory argues we are inevitably and constantly dependent on social institutions that are generated (and ideally monitored) through law. Accordingly, vulnerability theory argues for a state attentive to the needs of the universally 'vulnerable subject'.

Based on lectures at Trinity College Dublin that focused on four foundational concepts, this book highlights how vulnerability theory differs from individualistic liberal frameworks.

Calling for a reorientation of law toward a collective responsibility-based approach, it is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory, social justice, and sociolegal scholarship.

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Information

Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781529242850
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Information
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Series Editor’s Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. One Feminist Origins of Vulnerability Theory
  9. Two Lecture 1 – Reasoning From the Body
  10. Three Lecture 2 – Social Justice
  11. Four Lecture 3 – Injury
  12. Five Lecture 4 – Inevitable Inequality
  13. Six Institutionalizing the Individual
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index