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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819224403321

Autore

Diprose Rosalyn

Titolo

Corporeal generosity : on giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas / / Rosalyn Diprose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8884-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in gender theory

Disciplina

179/.9

Soggetti

Generosity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CORPOREAL GENEROSITY: ON GIVING WITH NIETZSCHE, MERLEAU-PONTY, AND LEVINAS""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Nietzsche and the Pathos of Distance""; ""2. Giving Sexed Corporeality before the Law""; ""3. Performing Body-Identity through the Other""; ""4. Erotic Generosity and Its Limits""; ""5. Affectivity and Social Power: From Melancholia to Generosity""; ""6. Sexuality and the Clinical Encounter""; ""7. Thinking through Radical Generosity with Levinas""; ""8. Truth, Cultural Difference,and Decolonization""; ""9. Generosity, Community,and Politics""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""

""Bibliography""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

Rosalyn Diprose contends that generosity is not just a human virtue, but it is an openness to others that is critical to our existence, sociality, and social formation. Her theory challenges the accepted model of generosity as a common character trait that guides a person to give something they possess away to others within an exchange economy. This book places giving in the realm of ontology, as well as the area of politics and social production, as it promotes ways to foster social relations that generate sexual, cultural, and stylistic differences. The analyses in the book theorize generosity in terms of intercorporeal relations where the self is given to others. Drawing primarily on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and offering critical interpretations of feminist philosophers such as Beauvoir and



Butler, the author builds a politically sensitive notion of generosity.