Introduction Costanza Porro and Christine Straehle; Part I. Conceptions of Vulnerability and Relational Equality: 1. Thomas Hobbes, vulnerability, and relational equality Daniel Engster; 2. Distributive and relational vulnerability: a thick dispositional analysis Natalie Stoljar; 3. Epistemological vulnerability, autonomy, and relational equality Christine Straehle; 4. Vulnerability, risk and relational equality Costanza Porro; Part II. Vulnerability, Relational Equality and Society: 5. Vulnerability, domination, and the conditions of equality Alexander Bryan; 6.

Asymmetric vulnerability without subordination: reconciling value-enabling vulnerability with relational equality Daniel Sharp; 7. Interactional equality Kimberley Brownlee; 8. The acknowledgement of vulnerability as a condition of relational equality Marie Garrau; Part III. Vulnerability, Relational Equality and the State: 9. Vulnerability, expressive disrespect, and presumptive distrust: a case of institutional injustice Catriona Mackenzie; 10. Paternalism and relational equality - responses to older people's vulnerability Susan Dodds; 11. Relational equality and vulnerability to social disrespect Giacomo Floris; Bibliography; Index.