Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 183 Seiten).
Edition:
Paperback first published 2020
ISBN:
978-1-3500-0413-9
,
978-1-3500-0410-8
Content:
"Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense of the finitude and fragility of human life, Philosophy and Vulnerability provocatively marshals three disciplinary 'nonphilosophers' to make its argument: French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat, journalist and masterful cultural commentator Joan Didion and feminist poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. Through this encounter, this book suggests ways in which rigorous attention to difference and diversity must nourish a militant philosophical universalism in the future."--Back cover
Note:
Introduction : towards a definition of philosophy which incorporates vulnerability -- Catherine Breillat I : an erotic suspension of the ethical -- John Didion : Becoming frail -- Audre Lorde : we must count learn to count the living with the same particular attention with which we number the dead -- Catherine Breillat II : Embrace of Weakness? -- Conclusion : Vulnerability and the profession
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-350-00415-3
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-3501-7642-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Verwundbarkeit
;
Philosophie
;
1948- Breillat, Catherine
;
1934-2021 Didion, Joan
;
1934-1992 Lorde, Audre
;
Verwundbarkeit
DOI:
10.5040/9781350004108