Futuring Critical Theory, Keynote 1: Estelle Ferrarese

13.09.2023 - Videos

»How vulnerable is Critical Theory? On the Experience of Vulnerability«

Estelle Ferrarese (Picardie-Jules-Verne University, Amiens)

Section One – Dissecting Critical Theory, Keynote 1 International Conference »Futuring Critical Theory«

The talk will present how Critical Theory allows us to apprehend vulnerability as living at the mercy of others, and how it can be heuristic to borrow from different theoretical traditions, particularly feminist ones, to think the experience of vulnerability through a (critical) phenomenology of sobbing. What does a sobbing body claim? What does it manifest, and how does it modify one's relationship to the world?

Futuring Critical Theory Wednesday, 13 Sep 23 Campus Westend, Casino Building Goethe University Frankfurt

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