Cover; Contents; Foreword: Philosophy in Furs; Translatorsâ#x80;#x99; Note; Introduction; Approach; Origins; Animality; Taking Care; Intelligence; Potential; The Sensory Cele bration (I); Sales Pitch; Language Sources; Justice and Forgiveness; East; A Silent Transformation; Feeling and Sensibility; The Symbolic Force of Gentleness; Free Form; Pure Gentleness?; Patrolling; Sensory Celebration (II); Counterfeits; Exhaustion; Penumbra; â#x80;#x9C;Master and Man, â#x80;#x9D; by Tolstoy; The Sensory Cele bration (III); Sublimation; Cruelties; In Hell; Listening; Trauma and Creation; Beyond the Confines
Clandestine GentlenessThe Sensory Celebration (IV); Childhood; Gentleness of Melancholy; Dolce Vita; A Gentle Revolution; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; Y
Summary
The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformationlinked to what the ancients called potentiality. Gentleness is a power
