Philosophy and Vulnerability

Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvMatthew R. McLennan

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Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense of the finitude and fragility of human life, Philosophy and Vulnerability provocatively marshals three disciplinary “nonphilosophers” to make its argument: French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat, journalist and masterful cultural commentator Joan Didion and feminist poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. Through this encounter, this book suggests ways in which rigorous attention to difference and diversity must nourish a militant philosophical universalism in the future.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-08-20
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt281 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350176423

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Toward a Definition of Philosophy which Incorporates VulnerabilityChapter 1. Catherine Breillat I: An Erotic Suspension of the EthicalChapter 2. Joan Didion: Becoming FrailChapter 3. Audre Lorde: We must learn to count the living with that same particular attention with which we number the deadChapter 4. Catherine Breillat II: Embrace of Weakness?Conclusion: Vulnerability and the ProfessionNotesBibliography Index

As a discipline, philosophy too often alibis the hyperbolic sense of autonomy, self-interest, and instrumentality that undergird the supposed common sense of capitalism. As an antidote, Matthew McLennan argues that the ability to philosophize itself relies on vulnerability—both in our finitude and our relationships with others, and in the kinds of egalitarian social solidarity that not only make these relationships possible, but desirable.