The Vulnerable and the Political: On the Seeming Impossibility of Thinking Vulnerability and the Political Together and Its Consequences

International audienceThis paper aims to refute the idea whereby giving consideration to vulnerabilitycan only lead to an ethics, or is only relative to a politics derived from morality.I first shed some light on the seeming impossibility experienced by a largenumber of contemporary theories of vulnerability to fully think the political.Second, I define what one overlooks in the political when one simply considersit as a sphere of implementation of moral principles. Finally, I interpret caretheories as an attempt to overcome the difficulty of thinking the politicalfrom the viewpoint of vulnerability, and I define the political as a movementof reengaging with and transforming what is already instituted