num_pages: 285
description: 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 such sovereignty  for example through camps walls police violence or drones  is also the underlying historical cause of many of our most intense contemporary experiences of vulnerabilization. Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the phantasmatic tool of its prevention in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how todays experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form of sovereignty that is producing this state of affairs.Focused on theories paradigms and alternative formations of sovereignty Being Vulnerable reconsiders the tradition of thinking through a political concept in order to approach it anew.
language: English
title: Being Vulnerable: Contemporary Political Thought
publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press