Inclinations (eBook)

A Critique of Rectitude

Adriana Cavarero (Autor)

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2016
208 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0041-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Cavarero refutes a long-standing set of assumptions in moral philosophy by contesting the classical figure of the homo erectus or 'upright man,' and by proposing a feminist, altruistic, open model of the subject–one inclined toward others.

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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 "e;upright man,"e; 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).

Autor

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).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
• Reihe/Serie: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
• Übersetzer: Amanda Minervini, Adam Sitze
• Zusatzinfo: 6 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-0041-6 / 1503600416
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0041-6 / 9781503600416