Diprose Corporeal Generosity

On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8884-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Gender Theory

Challenges the accepted model, and builds a politically sensitive notion of generosity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diprose, Rosalyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Introducing Generosity
Part I. Giving Identity and Difference
1. Nietzsche and the Pathos of Distance
2. Giving Sexed Corporeality before the Law
3. Performing Body-Identity through the Other
Part II. Generosity and the Politics of Affectivity
4. Erotic Generosity and Its Limits
5. Affectivity and Social Power: From Melancholia to Generosity
6. Sexuality and the Clinical Encounter
Part III. Generosity and Community (Trans)Formation
7. Thinking through Radical Generosity with Levinas
8. Truth, Cultural Difference, and Decolonization
9. Generosity, Community, and Politics Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rosalyn Diprose is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Difference.