Research Catalog

Title

Inclinations : a critique of rectitude / Adriana Cavarero ; translated by Amanda Minervini and Adam Sitze.

Author

Cavarero, Adriana

Publication

• Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Minervini, Amanda
• Sitze, Adam

Description

viii, 194 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

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).

Series Statement

Square one : first-order questions in the humanities

Uniform Title

• Inclinazioni. English
• Square one (Series)

Alternative Title

Inclinazioni.

Subject

• Ethics > History
• Feminist ethics
• Disposition (Philosophy)
• Posture > Moral and ethical aspects
• Posture in art
• Human beings in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-194).

Contents

Barnett Newman : Adam's line -- Kant and the newborn -- Virginia Woolf and the shadow of the "I" -- Plato erectus sed... -- Men and trees -- We are not monkeys : on erect posture -- Hobbes and the macroanthropos -- Elias Canetti : upright before the dead -- Artemisia : the allegory of Inclination -- Leonardo and maternal inclination -- Hannah Arendt : "a child has been born unto us" -- Schemata for a postural ethics -- Coda : adieu to Lévinas.

Call Number

JQD 17-26

ISBN

• 9780804792189
• 0804792186
• 9781503600409
• 1503600408

OCLC

962330497

Author

Cavarero, Adriana, author.

Title

Inclinations : a critique of rectitude / Adriana Cavarero ; translated by Amanda Minervini and Adam Sitze.

Publisher

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Square one : first-order questions in the humanities

Square one (Series)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-194).

Added Author

Minervini, Amanda, translator.

Sitze, Adam, translator.

Research Call Number

JQD 17-26