BOOKS - Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude
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Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude
Author: Adriana Cavarero
Year: January 1, 2014
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 9.4 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2014
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 9.4 MB
Language: English
In this new and accessible book, 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 and "upright man, and " Adriana Cavarero 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, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Alexander Rodchenko) and literature (Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf).