Love and Vulnerability

<p><em>Love and Vulnerability: Thinking with Pamela Sue Anderson</em> developed out of the desire for dialogue with the late feminist philosopher Pamela Sue Anderson’s extraordinary previously unpublished last work on love and vulnerability. The collection publishes this work for the first time with a diverse multidisciplinary international range of contributors responding to it to Anderson’s <i>oeuvre</i> as a whole and to her life and death.</p><p>Anderson’s path-breaking work includes <i>A Feminist Philosophy of Religion</i> (1998) and <i>Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion: Reason Love and Epistemic Locatedness</i> (2012). Her last work critiques then attempts to rebuild concepts of love and vulnerability. Reason critical self-reflexivity emotion intuition and imagination myth and narrative all have a role to play. Social justice friendship conversation dialogue collective work are central to her thinking.</p><p>Contributors 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. Discussions engage with the Me Too movement and sexual violence climate change sweatshops neoliberalism death and dying and the nature of the human.</p><p>Originally published as a special issue of the journal <i>Angelaki</i> this large wide-ranging collection featuring a number of distinguished contributors makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on interpersonal relations sympathy and empathy affect and emotion.</p>