The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity

ISBN-13: 9780197516645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 226 str.

Sara Rushing

Recenzje

Sara Rushing's notion that humility needs autonomy DL not the masterful sovereign autonomy of traditional social contract theory but the autonomy of an individual in relationship with herself and others DL is a major theoretical innovation. Her related idea that autonomy needs humility insofar as it is an ongoing process (and thus never settled or done) is similarly critical. If only the people who set up the kinds of clinics and spaces (for birth, for life, for death) that Rushing describes here read her book! Better yet, if the 'patients' who populate these spaces could read The Virtues of Vulnerability there would be a revolution in terms of care, agency, and the power of the citizen-subjects that she describes.

O autorze

Sara Rushing is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Montana State University, Bozeman, and Co-President of the Association for Political Theory from 2020-2022.