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The Challenges of Vulnerability

In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life

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  • © 2011

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  1. Barbara A. Misztal

    1. University of Leicester, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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

    1. Introduction: The Challenges of Vulnerability

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 1-11

  3. Defining Vulnerability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Vulnerability to Adverse Events

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 15-28

    3. Towards a Sociology of Vulnerability

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 29-50

    4. The First Form of Vulnerability

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      Pages 51-74

    5. The Second Form of Vulnerability

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      Pages 75-94

    6. The Third Form of Vulnerability

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 95-114

  4. Confronting Vulnerability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. The Nature of Remedies

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 117-134

    3. Acts of Responsibility

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      Pages 135-166

    4. Objectives of Promising

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      Pages 167-196

    5. Functions of Forgiveness

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      Pages 197-220

  5. Conclusion: The Challenges of Vulnerability Reduction

    1. Conclusion: The Challenges of Vulnerability Reduction

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 221-225

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 226-263
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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.

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"The Challenges of Vulnerability, is a timely and extremely valuable contribution to the current theoretical and political concern with vulnerability, especially in the advanced capitalist nation-states." - International Sociology

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leicester, UK

    Barbara A. Misztal

About the author

BARBARA MISZTAL is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK. She is the author of Public Intellectuals and the Public Good: Creativity and Courage, Trust in Modern Society, Informality, Social Theory and Contemporary Practice, and Social Theories of Remembering.

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