Ann V. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: Violence, Reflexivity, Critique

1. Thinking in Images

Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
Feminism and the Motif of Violence
Genealogy and Violence

2. Philosophy's Shame

Shame and the Philosophical Imaginary
Philosophy and Its Others
Shame and the Discourse on Difference

3. Violence, Visibility, and Identity Politics

Philosophy, Identity, and Violence
The Defense of Identity Politics
The Visible and the Real
Sexuality and Spectacle

PART TWO: Vulnerability, Ambiguity, Responsibility

4. The Provocations of Vulnerability

Feminist Philosophy and the Vulnerable Body
Ethical Ambiguity and Corporeal Vulnerability
A Phenomenology of Touch
Framing Violence and Vulnerability

5. What's in a Name? Imagining Vulnerability Otherwise

Uniqueness and the Human
Ontological Virtue
Ontological Vice
An Ethics of the Singular

6. Assuming Ambiguity: The Body and Ethical Life

Ambiguity in Beauvoir's Early Work
Vulnerability Revisited
Assuming Ambiguity
Freedom and Violence

Conclusion: Witnessing the Imaginary

References
Index