Inclinations
A Critique of Rectitude
Published on 19. October 2016
208 pages
978-1-5036-0041-6 (ISBN)
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Description
In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an altruistic, open model of the subject-one who is inclined toward others. Contrasting the masculine upright with the feminine inclined, she references philosophical texts (by Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Elias Canetti, and others) as well as works of art (Barnett Newman, Leonardo da Vinci, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Alexander Rodchenko) and literature (Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf).
Reviews / Votes
"Inclinations bears all the marks of Cavarero's work more generally: rigorous argumentation, a style at once direct and playful, a wide-ranging command of the philosophical tradition, combined with trenchant feminist critique." -Barbara Spackman, University of California at BerkeleyMore details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
6 s/w Abbildungen
6 halftones
ISBN-13
978-1-5036-0041-6 (9781503600416)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Book
11/2016
Stanford University Press
€96.50
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Persons
Adriana Cavarero is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona. Her books in English include For More than One Voice (Stanford, 2005) and Horrorism (2008).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Barnett Newman: Adam's Line
- 2. Kant and the Newborn
- 3. Virginia Woolf and the Shadow of the "I"
- 4. Plato Erectus Sed . . .
- 5. Men and Trees
- 6. We Are Not Monkeys: On Erect Posture
- 7. Hobbes and the Macroanthropos
- 8. Elias Canetti: Upright Before the Dead
- 9. Artemisia: The Allegory of Inclination
- 10. Leonardo and Maternal Inclination
- 11. Hannah Arendt: "A Child Has Been Born unto Us
- 12. Schemata for a Postural Ethics
- Coda: Adieu to Lévinas
- Notes
