Dependency Relations
Corporeal Vulnerability and Norms of Personhood in Hobbes and Kittay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12147837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shiloh Y Whitney (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 554-574 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01188.x |
| OpenAlex | W1967858255 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 9 |
Theories of the liberal tradition have relied on independence as a norm of personhood. Feminist theorists such as Eva Kittay in Love's Labor have been instrumental in critiquing normative independence. I explore the role of corporeal vulnerability in Kittay's account of personhood, developing a comparison to the role it plays in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan . Kittay's crucial contribution in Love's Labor is that once we acknowledge the facts of corporeal vulnerability, we must not only acknowledge but also affirm dependency in a genuinely inclusive affirmation of personhood. While endorsing Kittay's “dependency critique,” I discover difficulties that beleaguer Kittay's development of new norms of personhood. I trace these to a dependency of Kittay's account on a crucial premise of the liberal model it resists. I argue that in order to affirm dependency in a manner that departs more thoroughly from the criticized aspects of liberal personhood, we must cease to position it in a dichotomy of power and vulnerability. I suggest that attending to the corporeality of vulnerability can aid us in developing the terms of a discourse affirming relational personhood while undermining that dichotomy
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| Citations per year | 0.92 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |