The gift of the other : Levinas and the politics of reproduction / / Lisa Guenther
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| Autore: |
Guenther Lisa <1971->
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| Titolo: |
The gift of the other : Levinas and the politics of reproduction / / Lisa Guenther
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (202 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.874/301 |
| Soggetto topico: | Woman (Philosophy) |
| Motherhood - Philosophy | |
| Reproduction | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The “Facts” of Life: Beauvoir’s Account of Reproduction -- The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction -- Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other -- Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray, and the Transformation of Paternity -- Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations -- Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental PhilosophyThe Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The gift of the other |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8136-0 |
| 1-4294-1737-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827405303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY series in gender theory.