Alison Assiter is professor of feminist theory at the University of the West of England. She is the author of a number of books and articles. Her most recent book is Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory (2009).

In a brilliant, richly contextualized ‘speculative’ naturalist (re-)reading of Kierkegaard, Alison Assiter makes out a powerful case that – as Indigenous peoples have known from time immemorial and most other moderns have all but forgotten – nature is our mother, and evil is most fundamentally losing sight of this. Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth is philosophy at its best, addressing the really big issues of our time.

• Abbreviations / Introduction / 1. Contingent and Chaotic Reality / 2. A Challenge to Chaos / 3. Kant, Freedom and Evil / 4. Kierkegaard and Schelling on Process / 5. The Concept of Anxiety and Kant / 6. Kierkegaard on Women / 7. Metaphors of Birth in Kierkegaard / 8. More on Birthing / 9. Nature as a Body that can Birth / 10. The Age of Revolution and the Present Age / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index

Alison Assiter is professor of feminist theory at the University of the West of England. She is the author of a number of books and articles. Her most recent book is Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory (2009).

In a brilliant, richly contextualized ‘speculative’ naturalist (re-)reading of Kierkegaard, Alison Assiter makes out a powerful case that – as Indigenous peoples have known from time immemorial and most other moderns have all but forgotten – nature is our mother, and evil is most fundamentally losing sight of this. Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth is philosophy at its best, addressing the really big issues of our time.

• Abbreviations / Introduction / 1. Contingent and Chaotic Reality / 2. A Challenge to Chaos / 3. Kant, Freedom and Evil / 4. Kierkegaard and Schelling on Process / 5. The Concept of Anxiety and Kant / 6. Kierkegaard on Women / 7. Metaphors of Birth in Kierkegaard / 8. More on Birthing / 9. Nature as a Body that can Birth / 10. The Age of Revolution and the Present Age / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index