Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures: Institutionalizing the Individual

Name: Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures: Institutionalizing the Individual
Brand: Bristol University Press
SKU: 9781529242843
Price: 225.00 HKD
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Author: Martha Albertson Fineman
ISBN: 9781529242843

By Martha Albertson Fineman

Bristol University Press June 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781529242843
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication: June 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Preface

1. Feminist Origins of Vulnerability Theory

2. Lecture One – Reasoning From the Body

3. Lecture Two – “Social Justice”

4. Lecture Three – Injury

5. Lecture Four – Inevitable Inequality

6. Institutionalizing the Individual

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