Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History

Name: Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History
Brand: Continuum Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9781441162991
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Автор: Michael O´Sullivan

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This study charts a history of weakness in a selection of canonical works in literature and philosop...

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Автор

Michael O´Sullivan

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2012

страници

208

EAN

9781441162991

ISBN

1441162992

Enbook ID

04463420

Издател

Continuum Publishing Corporation

Теглоt

494

Размери

156 x 234 x 14

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This study charts a history of weakness in a selection of canonical works in literature and philosophy. Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O'Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the concept explores weakness as it interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, the Romantics, Dickens and the Modernists. It examines what feminist critics Elaine Showalter and Luce Irigaray make of the figure of the "weaker vessel" and considers philosophical notions such as radical passivity, a "syntax of weakness" and human vulnerability in the work of Derrida and Beckett and Coetzee. Through analysis of these differing versions of weakness, O'Sullivan's study challenges the popular myth that aligns masculine identity with strength and force and presents a humane weakness as a guiding motif for debates in ethics.

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