ONTOLOGY OF VULNERABILITY AND POLITICS OF MOURNING IN JUDITH BUTLER

This article aims to analyze the way in which Judith Butler presents an Ontology of Vulnerability, based on the concept of "life" as a life worth mourning, as well as its political consequences. We shall analyze why Butler resorts to the category of Ontology and how she incorporates the notion of "life" in her analysis. One of the objectives of this work is to show that this Ontology does not represent a breach in the previous work of Butler: her analyses about gender and sex, but rather that this reflection on vulnerability and precariousness springs from what the author calls "abject bodies".