The Challenges of Vulnerability

In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781349308361
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Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.

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ISBN13:9781349308361
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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List of Tables  Acknowledgements Introduction: The Challenge of Vulnerability PART I: DEFINING VULNERABILITY Vulnerability to Adverse Events Towards Sociology of Vulnerability The First Form of Vulnerability The Second Form of Vulnerability The Third Form of Vulnerability PART II: CONFRONTING VULNERABILITY The Nature of Remedies Acts of Responsibility Objectives of Promising Functions of Forgiveness Conclusion Bibliography Index

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