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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alison Stone (Lancaster University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.450kg ISBN: 9780198845782ISBN 10: 0198845782 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 26 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Towards a Philosophy of Being Born 1: Birth and Natality in Feminist Philosophy 2: History, Inheritance, and Vulnerability 3: Dependency, Relationality, Power, and Situatedness 4: The Radical Contingency of Being Born 5: Birth Anxieties 6: Natality and Mortality 7: Temporality, the Gift, and Being BornReviewsBeing Born is an excellent contribution to overcoming the philosophical neglect around being born. . . . This book is a rare gem because Stone examines being born within the framework of existential philosophy. . . . an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in philosophical reflections on birth. . . . Alison Stone provides valuable insights into how the meaningful structure of our existence is conditioned by being born. She also offers a fresh perspective on the philosophical concept of mortality as related to natality. * Olena Kushyna, Journal of Political Power * Author InformationAlison Stone is Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University. She is the author of several books, including; Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy (SUNY 2004), Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (Cambridge 2006), An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Polity 2007), Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity (Routledge 2011) and The Value of Popular Music (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). She is also editor of The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Edinburgh 2011) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (Routledge 2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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