Politics of Vulnerability and Responsibility for Ordinary Others. Issue 2 (3rd May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Laugier, Sandra
• Is Part Of: Critical horizons. Volume 17:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 207
• Page End: 223
• Publication Date: 2016-05-03
• Subjects: Cavell -- Wittgenstein -- ethics -- care -- vulnerability -- responsibility; Critical theory -- Periodicals; 142.05
• DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2016.1153891
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1440-9917

Abstract

Abstract : The ethics of care has contributed to modifying a dominant conception of ethics and changed the way we conceive vulnerability. It has introduced ethical stakes into politics, weakening, through its critique of theories of justice, the seemingly obvious link between an ethics of justice and political liberalism. However, care corresponds to a quite ordinary reality: the fact that people look after one another, take care of one another and thus are responsible. The aim of this paper is to connect the ethics of care to the idea of the vulnerability of the human as it is developed in the moral philosophy inspired by Wittgenstein (and explored by Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond and Veena Das).