Being Vulnerable: Contemporary Political Thought Volume 4

by Arne De Boever

Book Overview

We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo vulnerabilis is once again coming to terms with the fact that it can be wounded, or even killed.Against such finitude, sovereignty is now reasserting itself as a political power that might save us from our ontological state. The irony is, of course, that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228016282
• ISBN13: 9780228016281
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"