Ethics of Vulnerability - A Feminist Analysis of Social Life and Practice

Gilson provides a systematic account of the ethics of vulnerability, critiquing the reductively negative view taken against vulnerability, demonstrating how its persistence prevents vulnerability from possessing the normative value many theorists wish it to have, and articulating instead a richer, more nuanced theory. She then applies this account to the debates over pornography in feminism, thus showing its value for fraught ethical and political issues.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1: The Normative Significance of Vulnerability 1. Responsibility for the Vulnerable 2. Thinking Vulnerability with Judith Butler Part 2: Avoidance and Disavowal 3. The Ideal of an Invulnerability 4. Risk and Control: The Formation of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity Part 3: Rethinking Vulnerability 5. Vulnerability Beyond Opposition 6. Vulnerability in Social Life: Sexuality and Pornography Conclusion

About the author

Erinn C. Gilson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida, USA. Her research focuses on ethics and social thought from a feminist perspective and informed by contemporary European philosophy. She is currently exploring issues surrounding food ethics and the question of the significance of ethical failure.

Product details

• Authors: Erinn Gilson, Erinn (University of North Florida Gilson, Gilson Erinn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9780415656139
• ISBN: 978-0-415-65613-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Pornography, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Gender studies, gender groups