The Vulnerability of the Human World

This book contains the most recent papers problematizing the notions of health, vulnerability, and well-being for individuals and their environment. Organized in 5 sections the book takes into consideration the critical and phenomenological history of well-being and health, their technological manipulation, how these notions connect with the body and the specific vulnerability of the human being, and what responsible direction we can take to improve people's relation to themselves, to other living beings and their environment. In order to address the issue of the vulnerability of the human world and how to respond to its specific challenges, the contributions in this book discuss the topic from a broad range of perspectives, including anthropological, psychological, sociological, philosophical, and environmental.

Auteur

Elodie Boublil has a PhD in philosophy from McGill University, a MA in philosophy from Sorbonne University (Paris I) and a MA in political science and international relations from Sciences Po Paris. After her PhD, she received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission (CNRS, 2015-2017) and the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (University of Cologne, 2018-2020). She is now Associate Professor at the University of Paris XII (UPEC), she has published books and papers on phenomenology, ethics, philosophy of health, vulnerability and empathy.

Susi Ferrarello, has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in Paris, a master in Human Rights and Political Science from the University of Bologna. She has held professorships at Loyola University (Chicago), Switzerland, Sapienza University, and the Florence University of the Arts. Currently, she is an associate professor at California State University, East Bay. She writes for Psychology Today. Among her publications the most recent 'the Ethics of Love' (routledge, 2023), 'the Origin of Bioethics and Human Emotions' (Routledge 2022), Husserl's ethics and practical intentionality (Bloomsbury 2015)