The Vulnerable and the Political: On the Seeming Impossibility of Thinking Vulnerability and the Political Together and Its Consequences
Résumé
This paper aims to refute the idea whereby giving consideration to vulnerability
can only lead to an ethics, or is only relative to a politics derived from morality.
I first shed some light on the seeming impossibility experienced by a large
number of contemporary theories of vulnerability to fully think the political.
Second, I define what one overlooks in the political when one simply considers
it as a sphere of implementation of moral principles. Finally, I interpret care
theories as an attempt to overcome the difficulty of thinking the political
from the viewpoint of vulnerability, and I define the political as a movement
of reengaging with and transforming what is already instituted.