Resumen de Lo spazio sociale della vulnerabilltà tra «pretese di giustizia» e «pretese di diritto». Alcune considerazioni critiche

Silvia Zullo

• The Social Space of Vulnerability between «Clairns to Justice» and «Legal Clairns».

  Some Critical Considerations. This article analyzes the question of vulnerability from an ethico-political and legal-philosophical angle. To this end two critical aspects of this question will be highlighted, namely, (a) the structural arnbiguiry of the status of vulnerability as a construct straddling the prescriptive and the descriptive and (b) the governance of vulnerability in its close connection with issues relating to social justice and the welfare state and with the categories through which those issues are filtered. By analyzing these two aspects, ir will be possible to appreciate how we still c1ing to a distinction between «vulnerable» individuals, on the one hand, and «strong» individuals, on the other. Ir will be argued that this is normatively as well as legally problematic, and that we consequently have to revisit our rnodels of social justice and certain areas of the law.