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OverviewIssues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense of the finitude and fragility of human life, Philosophy and Vulnerability provocatively marshals three disciplinary “nonphilosophers” to make its argument: French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat, journalist and masterful cultural commentator Joan Didion and feminist poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. Through this encounter, this book suggests ways in which rigorous attention to difference and diversity must nourish a militant philosophical universalism in the future. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. Matthew R. McLennanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350004153ISBN 10: 1350004154 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 21 February 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Definition of Philosophy which Incorporates Vulnerability Chapter 1. Catherine Breillat I: An Erotic Suspension of the Ethical Chapter 2. Joan Didion: Becoming Frail Chapter 3. Audre Lorde: We must learn to count the living with that same particular attention with which we number the dead Chapter 4. Catherine Breillat II: Embrace of Weakness? Conclusion: Vulnerability and the Profession Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAs a discipline, philosophy too often alibis the hyperbolic sense of autonomy, self-interest, and instrumentality that undergird the supposed common sense of capitalism. As an antidote, Matthew McLennan argues that the ability to philosophize itself relies on vulnerability-both in our finitude and our relationships with others, and in the kinds of egalitarian social solidarity that not only make these relationships possible, but desirable. -- Devin Shaw Author InformationMatthew R. McLennan is Assistant Professor in the School of Ethics, Social Justice and Public Service, Saint Paul University / Université Saint-Paul, Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |