Vulnerability, justice and care
Keywords:
vulnerability, justice, care, vulnerabilidad, justicia, cuidadoAbstract
The concept of vulnerability is once again assuming a central role in ethical-political-legal discourse. This is the case both in relation to its neo-liberal reinterpretations, aimed at placing the responsibilities and consequences of vulnerability onto the vulnerable subject itself, and, on the contrary, to the theses - the result, to a large extent, of a reworking of the ethics of care – of authors such as Martha Fineman, Judith Butler, Martha Nussbaum, Catriona Mackenzie and others, who use the idea of vulnerability as a basis for re-founding and reorganising liberal policies, freeing them from fictitious concepts such as the alleged basic autonomy of the human being. The article aims to analyse the different meanings and implications that, due to the accentuation of different aspects of vulnerability, add up to produce such a multifaceted concept, in order to try to clarify the conceptual implications and practical consequences that vulnerability may elicit.
Una vez más, el concepto de vulnerabilidad está asumiendo un rol central en el discurso ético-político-jurídico. Es el caso tanto en sus reinterpretaciones neoliberales, dirigidas a hacer recaer las responsabilidades y consecuencias de la vulnerabilidad sobre el propio sujeto vulnerable, y, por el contrario, en las tesis –resultado, en gran medida, de una reelaboración de la ética del cuidado– de autoras como Martha Fineman, Judith Butler, Martha Nussbaum, Catriona Mackenzie y otros, que usan la idea de vulnerabilidad como base para refundar y reorganizar políticas liberales, desembarazándolas de conceptos ficticios como la supuesta autonomía básica del ser humano. Este artículo se propone analizar los diferentes significados e implicaciones que, debido a la acentuación de diferentes aspectos de la vulnerabilidad, se suman para producir un concepto tan polifacético; y ello, para intentar aclarar las implicaciones conceptuales y consecuencias prácticas que la vulnerabilidad puede generar.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1254
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