ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author proposal for transformation aims at liberating love and vulnerability from the excessive fear and violence which has been conveyed mythically by our (Western) philosophical imaginary. The author focus might appear both abstract and ambitious when she claim that our(current/domi-nant)philosophical imaginary has configured,in its mythical images, narratives and symbols, a separate class of “the vulnerable.” Roughly, the myths implicit in philosophical (social) imaginary motivate the reader either to retain or to reconceive the imagery, stories and values associated with vulnerability; rethinking those myths is a first step towards transforming our reciprocal affections – of either violence, and fear due to that violence, or love, and confidence in that love. Moreover, the symbolism of light remains most appropriate to a philosophical imaginary which recognizes a lasting debt to ethically significant aspects of seventeenthand eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophy in Europe at least.
