Exploring Vulnerability (Hardcover)

Martha A. Fineman

ISBN 10: 3525540639 / ISBN 13: 9783525540633

Published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG, 2017

About this Item

Hardcover. Vulnerability is an essential but also an intriguing ambiguous part of the human condition. This book conceptualizes vulnerability to be a fundamental threat and deficit and at the same time to be a powerful resource for transformation.The exploration is undertaken in multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches the human condition in fruitful conversations with medical, psychological, legal, theological, political and philosophical investiga-tions of vulnerability.The multidisciplinary approach opens the space for a broad variety of deeply interrelated topics. Thus, vulnerability is analyzed with respect to diverse aspects of human and social life, such as violence and power, the body and social institutions. Theologically questions of sin and redemption and eventually the nature of the Divine are taken up. Throughout the book phenomenological descriptions are combined with necessary conceptual clarifications. The contributions seek to illuminate the relation between vulnerability as a fundamental unavoidable condition and contingent actualizations related to specific dangers and risks. The core thesis of the book can be seen within its multi-perspectivity: A sound concept of vulnerability is key to a realistic, that is to say neither negative nor illusionary anthropology, to an honest post-theistic understanding of God and eventually to a deeply humanistic understanding of social life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Vulnerability (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3525540639
• ISBN 13: 9783525540633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Vulnerability is an essential but also an intriguing ambiguous part of the human condition. This book conceptualizes vulnerability to be a fundamental threat and deficit and at the same time to be a powerful resource for transformation.The exploration is undertaken in multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches the human condition in fruitful conversations with medical, psychological, legal, theological, political and philosophical investiga-tions of vulnerability.The multidisciplinary approach opens the space for a broad variety of deeply interrelated topics. Thus, vulnerability is analyzed with respect to diverse aspects of human and social life, such as violence and power, the body and social institutions. Theologically questions of sin and redemption and eventually the nature of the Divine are taken up. Throughout the book phenomenological descriptions are combined with necessary conceptual clarifications. The contributions seek to illuminate the relation between vulnerability as a fundamental unavoidable condition and contingent actualizations related to specific dangers and risks. The core thesis of the book can be seen within its multi-perspectivity: A sound concept of vulnerability is key to a realistic, that is to say neither negative nor illusionary anthropology, to an honest post-theistic understanding of God and eventually to a deeply humanistic understanding of social life.

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Dr. Gunter Thomas ist ordinierter Pfarrer der Wurttembergischen Landeskirche, seit 2004 Professor fur Systematische Theologie an der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum und Mitglied der Synode der Evangelischen Kirche in Westfalen. Dr. Heike Springhart ist Privatdozentin fur Systematische Theologie an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg und Studienleiterin des Theologischen Studienhauses Heidelberg. Sie ist ordinierte Pfarrerin der evangelischen Landeskirche in Baden und Mitglieder der Kammer fur Theologie der EKD.