Inclinations : a critique of rectitude

Title
  1. Inclinations : a critique of rectitude / Adriana Cavarero ; translated by Amanda Minervini and Adam Sitze.
Published by
  1. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
  2. ©2016
Author
  1. Cavarero, Adriana

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Additional authors
  1. Minervini, Amanda
  2. Sitze, Adam
Description
  1. viii, 194 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an altruistic, open model of the subject-one who is inclined toward others. Contrasting the masculine upright with the feminine inclined, she references philosophical texts (by Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Elias Canetti, and others) as well as works of art (Barnett Newman, Leonardo da Vinci, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Alexander Rodchenko) and literature (Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf).
Series statement
  1. Square one : first-order questions in the humanities
Uniform title
  1. Inclinazioni. English
  2. Square one (Series)
Alternative title
  1. Inclinazioni.
Subject
  1. Human beings in art
  2. Posture in art
  3. Posture > Moral and ethical aspects
  4. Disposition (Philosophy)
  5. Feminist ethics
  6. Ethics > History
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Barnett Newman : Adam's line -- Kant and the newborn -- Virginia Woolf and the shadow of the "I" -- Plato erectus sed ... -- Men and trees -- We are not monkeys : on erect posture -- Hobbes and the macroanthropos -- Elias Canetti : upright before the dead -- Artemisia : the allegory of Inclination -- Leonardo and maternal inclination -- Hannah Arendt : "a child has been born unto us" -- Schemata for a postural ethics -- Coda : adieu to Lévinas.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194).