The Challenges of Vulnerability

In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life

  • Barbara A. Misztal
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: The Challenges of Vulnerability

    1. Introduction: The Challenges of Vulnerability
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      Pages 1-11

  3. Defining Vulnerability

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    2. Vulnerability to Adverse Events
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      Pages 15-28
    3. Towards a Sociology of Vulnerability
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    4. The First Form of Vulnerability
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    5. The Second Form of Vulnerability
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    6. The Third Form of Vulnerability
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  4. Confronting Vulnerability

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    2. The Nature of Remedies
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      Pages 117-134
    3. Acts of Responsibility
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      Pages 135-166
    4. Objectives of Promising
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    5. Functions of Forgiveness
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  5. Conclusion: The Challenges of Vulnerability Reduction

    1. Conclusion: The Challenges of Vulnerability Reduction
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      Pages 221-225
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 226-263
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About this book

Introduction

Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.

Keywords

nature resilience sociology

Authors and affiliations

  • Barbara A. Misztal
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  1. 1.University of LeicesterUK

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