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This paper focuses on the current international refugee crisis and the ways
in which it is leading to sharp symbolic and physical violence through the
process of ?othering.? Based on Hannah Arendt?s discussion of statelessness
and the question of the right to have rights, and Giorgio Agamben?s
discussion of Homo Sacer, as well as drawing on other key authors such as
Judith Butler, we argue that conditions of extreme human vulnerability and
dangers of totalitarianism are being radically worsened by the ethnicized
and racialized denial of the other, that is, of human rights. Rather than
advocating an abstract cosmopolitanism, however, without strong purchase in
contemporary social life, the paper concludes by noting the need to place
oneself in a position of discomfort, in order to confront the tension
between particularistic attachments and universalist aspirations, between
the multiplicity of laws and the ideal of a rational order common to all
polities, between belief in the unity of humankind and the healthy
antagonisms and tensions generated by human diversity.

The Anthropocene refers to the geological era in which man - anthropos - has become a geophysical force transforming the biosphere. This period is marked by a lack of compassion and understanding of our environments - a total detachment from our biospheric reality. If care is everything we do to repair and maintain this world, what does this process entail in the Anthropocene? This paper addresses the importance of taking care seriously. We look at care in the Anthropocene and its interconnections with the notions of vulnerability and compassion from both a philosophical and anthropological perspective.

International audience ; This paper is the product of a roundtable discussion held at the international conference Horizons of Engagement: Eternalizing Bourdieu, organized by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of Belgrade, Serbia, the Centre for Advanced Studies of The University of Rijeka, Croatia, the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure of Paris, France, and the French Institute in Serbia. The event was planned on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of one of the world?s leading sociologists - Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002). The greatest indicator of the scope of Bourdieu?s influence is the fact that he has become the world?s most cited sociologist, ahead of ?mile Durkheim, and the world?s second most cited author in social sciences and the humanities, after Michel Foucault and ahead of Jacques Derrida. As part of this discussion, we address the subject of ?Bourdieu and Politics?, politics - broadly constructed. We evoke Pierre Bourdieu?s involvement in public affairs during the 1990s, while taking into account the concept of the collective intellectual that Bourdieu introduced into social sciences by giving it a specific meaning.

This paper is the product of a roundtable discussion held at the
international conference Horizons of Engagement: Eternalizing Bourdieu,
organized by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of Belgrade,
Serbia, the Centre for Advanced Studies of The University of Rijeka,
Croatia, the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure of Paris, France, and the French
Institute in Serbia. The event was planned on the occasion of the ninetieth
anniversary of the birth of one of the world?s leading sociologists - Pierre
Bourdieu (1930-2002). The greatest indicator of the scope of Bourdieu?s
influence is the fact that he has become the world?s most cited sociologist,
ahead of ?mile Durkheim, and the world?s second most cited author in social
sciences and the humanities, after Michel Foucault and ahead of Jacques
Derrida. As part of this discussion, we address the subject of ?Bourdieu and
Politics?, politics - broadly constructed. We evoke Pierre Bourdieu?s
involvement in public affairs during the 1990s, while taking into account
the concept of the collective intellectual that Bourdieu introduced into
social sciences by giving it a specific meaning.

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