ABSTRACT
Anderson sets out to offer a revised reading of Kant to capture an element of vulnerability alongside autonomy. In this chapter, the author sketches an alternative model of autonomy and freedom that allows for vulnerability in the sense of openness to others and of relationality. While Anderson makes an important point in her desire to alter "negative" conceptions of vulnerability, the people must also accept that there are, as a matter of fact, ''negative'' aspects of the notion that require political change. However, there are, the author have suggested in this paper, two central difficulties with the adapted particularist understanding of Kant deployed by Anderson. In setting out properly to critique false universalizing perspectives, which generalize from the experience of white middle-class women to all women, some critics focus on critiquing all forms of universalizing thinking and this, in the author view, removes that key egalitarian impetus from feminism.
