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Author Cavarero, Adriana, author.

Title Inclinations : a critique of rectitude / Adriana Cavarero ; translated by Amanda Minervini and Adam Sitze
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Square one: first-order questions in the humanities
Square one (Series)
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 LĂ©vinas
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)
Notes "Originally published in Italian under the title Inclinazioni: critica della rettitudine."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Posture (Philosophy)
Femininity (Philosophy)
Subjectivity.
Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Ethics
Femininity (Philosophy)
Posture (Philosophy)
Subjectivity
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017015550
ISBN 9781503600416
1503600416
Other Titles Inclinazioni. English