Gift of the Other

Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction

AvLisa Guenther

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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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 PhilosophyWinner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-08-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Gender Theory
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791468487

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Gift of the Other A Feminist Approach to LevinasA Levinasian Approach to FeminismBirth, Time, Ethics1. The "Facts" of Life: Beauvoir’s Account of Reproduction Take 1: Birth as a ProjectTake 2: Birth as an Ambiguous Situation2. The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction Vita Activa: Labor, Work, ActionThe Temporality of Action: Promise and ForgivenessThinking Through NatalityReproducing Natality: Cavarero's Reading of Arendt3.Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other Derrida and the Gift of the ImpossibleCixous and the Gift of the FeminineLevinas and the Gift of HospitalityI am welcomed: From ethos to oikosYou are welcome: From oikos to ethos4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray, and the Transformation of Paternity Paternity as Infinite DiscontinuityOtherwise than Paternity: Irigaray Reading LevinasFrom Paternity to the Maternal Body: Isaiah 495. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations Time and the Maternal BodyEthics and HerethicsMoses and His Mothers: Numbers 11:126. Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice Defending the Imaginary Domain: Drucilla CornellLevinas Between Ethics and PoliticsEthics, Politics, and the Prospect of "Unborn Mothers" Altered MaternitiesNotesBibliographyIndex