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Exciting new collection on vulnerability theory — soon to be published, currently on sale … https://www.routledge.com/Law-Vulnerability-and-the-Responsive-State-Beyond-Equality-and-Liberty/Fineman-Spitz/p/book/9781032346632
Routledge & CRC PressLaw, Vulnerability, and the Responsive State: Beyond Equality and LibertyThis book considers how vulnerability theory provides the basis for a reconceptualization of the liberal ideas of autonomy, equality, and freedom.
Vulnerability theory argues a ‘vulnerable legal subject’ should displace the ‘liberal legal subject’ that currently dominates law and policy. The theory is based on the fundamental empirical realities of the material body and offers an alternative to a social contract or rights-based notion of state responsibility, both of which tend to privil