Political bodies : writings on Adriana Cavarero's political thought / edited by Paula Landerreche Cardillo and Rachel Silverbloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Landerreche Cardillo, Paula, editor.

Silverbloom, Rachel, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.

SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Feminist theory.

Philosophical anthropology.

Philosophy, Italian.

Cavarero, Adriana--Political and social views.

Cavarero, Adriana.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Editors' Introduction

An Unlikely Duo: Arendt and Irigaray

Cavarero's Political Bodies

Summaries of Contributions

Notes

Bibliography

Part One: Tracing Cavarero's Political Thought

1. Inclining toward Democracy: From Plato to Arendt

2. Cavarero as an Arendtian Feminist

Introduction

Articulating a Maternal Ontology through Arendt

Undoing Matricide

Sexed Natality

Femininity and the Philosophy of Voice

Conclusion

Part Two: "Who engenders politics?"

3. On the Politics of the Who: Cavarero, Nancy, and Rancière

Who Engenders Politics?

Who Comes after the Subject?

What Subject?

A Politics of Who

4. "Taking the Thread for a Walk": Feminist Resistance to the Philosophical Order in Adriana Cavarero and María Lugones

Cavarero's Penelope

Penelope Trapped in the Weaving Room

Active Subjectivity and Sense Making

On Walking

5. Stealing and Critical Fabulation: The Counter-Historical Methods of Adriana Cavarero and Saidiya Hartman

Cavarero Steals Penelope

Hartman Fabulates Venus

Generative Failures, Radical Futilities

Part Three: The Body in Politics: Conversations with Materialisms

6. One's Body in Political Engagement: Changing the Relation between Public and Private

When Body Politics Becomes Necessity and Security

Hannah Arendt's Idea of Body Politics

Engaging One's Vulnerable Body in Cavarero's Political Vision

7. Inclining toward New Forms of Life: Cavarero, Agamben, and Hartman

Cavarero's schielende Blick

Antigone and the Foreclosure of Life-Forming Power.

From Maternal Generative Power to a Relational Ontology

Wayward Gestures of Living

8. Bodies in Relation: Ontology, Ethics, and Politics in Adriana Cavarero and Giorgio Agamben

How Life and Bodies Matter

Exposures and Figures of the Thinkable

Bodies in Relation, or Thinking Otherwise through Altruistic Care or Destituent Power

Part Four: Political Violence, Voice, and Relational Selves

9. Sexual Violence as Ontological Violence: Narration, Selfhood, and the Destruction of Singularity

Relational and Vulnerable Selfhood: On Being Made and Unmade by Others

Horrorism as Ontological Violence: From Vulnerability to Helplessness

Sexual Violence as Ontological Violence: Rape and the Destruction of the Self

The Redemptive Power of Narration: Living to Tell and Telling to Live

Narrative Against Destruction: Restoring Relational Selfhood

10. Being Robbed of One's Voice: On Listening and Political Violence in Adriana Cavarero

From Seeing to Listening in Adriana Cavarero's Work

The Gorgon's Soundless Howl: On Voice and Political Violence

"And Do Not Touch Me": Having One's Voice and Listening Colonized

Afterword

Part Five: Uncanny Bodies

11. Elena Ferrante and the Uncanny of Motherhood

Appendix 1: Works by Cavarero in English

Books

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

Interviews/Conversations

Appendix 2: Secondary Bibliography on Cavarero

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438497105

1438497105