Anne Dufourmantelle

Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

Übersetzer: Payne, Katherine; Sallé, Vincent

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192mm x 132mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780823279586
• ISBN-10: 0823279588
• Artikelnr.: 51750039

Autorenporträt

Anne Dufourmantelle

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Philosophy in Furs by Catherine Malabou
Translators' Note
Introduction
Approach
Origins
Animality
Taking Care
Intelligence
Potential
The Sensory Celebration (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
"Master and Man" by Tolstoy
The Sensory Celebration (III)
Sublimation
Cruelties
In Hell
Listening
Trauma and Creation
At the Confines
Clandestine Gentleness
The Sensory Celebration (IV)
Childhood
Gentleness of Melancholy
Dolce Vita
A Gentle Revolution
Notes
Index