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Inclinations : a critique of rectitude

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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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
  • Ethics
  • Feministische Philosophie
  • Subjektivität
  • Neigung Philosophie
Genre/Form
History.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780804792189
  • 0804792186
  • 9781503600409
  • 1503600408
  • 9781503600416 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2016030139
OCLC
  • ocn962330497
  • 962330497
  • SCSB-8419617
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library