Inclinations : a critique of rectitude / Adriana Cavarero ; translated by Amanda Minervini and Adam Sitze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavarero, Adriana, author.

Contributor:

Minervini, Amanda, translator.

Sitze, Adam, translator.

Series:

Square one (Series)

Square one: first-order questions in the humanities

Standardized Title:

Inclinazioni. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings in art.

Posture in art.

Feminist literary criticism.

Feminism and literature.

Posture--Moral and ethical aspects.

Posture.

Physical Description:

viii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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," the author 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, Aretemisia Gentileschi, and Alexander Rodchenko) and literature (Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf).

Contents:

1. Barnett Newman: Adam's Line; 2. Kant and the Newborn; 3. Virginia Woolf and the Shadow of the "I"; 4. Plato Erectus Sed . . . ; 5. Men and Trees; 6. We Are Not Monkeys: On Erect Posture; 7. Hobbes and the Macroanthropos; 8. Elias Canetti: Upright Before the Dead; 9. Artemisia: The Allegory of Inclination; 10. Leonardo and Maternal Inclination; 11. Hannah Arendt: ""A Child Has Been Born unto Us""; 12. Schemata for a Postural Ethics; Coda: Adieu to Lévinas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Originally published in Italian in 2014.

ISBN:

9781503600409

1503600408

OCLC:

950445375