Love and Vulnerability: Thinking with Pamela Sue Anderson

Love and Vulnerability: Thinking with Pamela Sue Anderson is a collection of previously unpublished work by the late feminist philosopher Pamela Sue Anderson, with a diverse range of contributors responding to her work. The book explores concepts of love and vulnerability, drawing on reason, self-reflexivity, emotion, intuition, and imagination. It discusses social justice, friendship, conversation, dialogue, collective work, and engages with issues such as the Me Too movement, sexual violence, climate change, sweatshops, neoliberalism, death, and dying.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Love and Vulnerability: Thinking with Pamela Sue Anderson emerged as a heartfelt endeavor to engage in a profound dialogue with the late feminist philosopher Pamela Sue Anderson's extraordinary, previously unpublished, and final work on love and vulnerability. This remarkable collection brings forth this groundbreaking piece for the first time, inviting a diverse, multidisciplinary, and international array of contributors to respond to Anderson's entire oeuvre, as well as to her life and passing.

Anderson's pioneering contributions include A Feminist Philosophy of Religion (1998) and Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion: Reason, Love, and Epistemic Locatedness (2012). In her last work, she critically examines and then endeavors to rebuild concepts of love and vulnerability. Reason, critical self-reflexivity, emotion, intuition, and imagination all play pivotal roles in this intellectual journey. Social justice, friendship, conversation, dialogue, collective work, and the interconnectedness of these aspects form the core of Anderson's philosophical framework.

Contributors to this collection trace the emergence of Anderson's late thinking, extend her conversations with the history of philosophy and contemporary voices such as hooks and Butler, and bring her work into contact with debates in theology, Continental and analytic philosophy, feminist, queer, and transgender theory, postcolonial theory, African-American studies, and more. Engaging discussions delve into the Me Too movement and sexual violence, climate change, sweatshops, neoliberalism, death and dying, and the essence of human existence.

Originally published as a special issue of the journal Angelaki, this expansive and comprehensive collection, featuring numerous distinguished contributors, makes a substantial contribution to the growing interdisciplinary research on interpersonal relations, sympathy and empathy, affect and emotion. It serves as a testament to Anderson's enduring legacy and her profound insights into the complexities of love, vulnerability, and the human experience.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367678760