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A philosophical exploration of birth, maternity, and reproduction. Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy

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Author:   Lisa Guenther
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780791468470

ISBN 10:   079146847
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   10 August 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: The Gift of the Other A Feminist Approach to Levinas A Levinasian Approach to Feminism Birth, Time, Ethics 1. The ""Facts"" of Life: Beauvoir's Account of Reproduction Take 1: Birth as a Project Take 2: Birth as an Ambiguous Situation 2. The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction Vita Activa: Labor, Work, Action The Temporality of Action: Promise and Forgiveness Thinking Through Natality Reproducing Natality: Cavarero's Reading of Arendt 3.Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other Derrida and the Gift of the Impossible Cixous and the Gift of the Feminine Levinas and the Gift of Hospitality I am welcomed: From ethos to oikos You are welcome: From oikos to ethos 4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray, and the Transformation of Paternity Paternity as Infinite Discontinuity Otherwise than Paternity: Irigaray Reading Levinas From Paternity to the Maternal Body: Isaiah 49 5. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations Time and the Maternal Body Ethics and Herethics Moses and His Mothers: Numbers 11:12 6. Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice Defending the Imaginary Domain: Drucilla Cornell Levinas Between Ethics and Politics Ethics, Politics, and the Prospect of ""Unborn Mothers"" Altered Maternities Notes Bibliography Index"

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Guenther presents an original, compelling, and lucid analysis of birth as a gilt that, if given rather than forced, grounds subjectivity, plurality, and ethical sociality. This is a groundbreaking work that revises Levinas's ethics for feminist reproductive politics, and it will have a significant impact on key debates in existential phenomenology, feminist theory, bioethics, and biopolitics. -- Rosalyn Diprose, author of Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levina

"""Guenther presents an original, compelling, and lucid analysis of birth as a gilt that, if given rather than forced, grounds subjectivity, plurality, and ethical sociality. This is a groundbreaking work that revises Levinas's ethics for feminist reproductive politics, and it will have a significant impact on key debates in existential phenomenology, feminist theory, bioethics, and biopolitics."" -- Rosalyn Diprose, author of Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levina"

Author Information

Lisa Guenther is Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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