Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History

Name: Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History
Brand: Continuum Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9781441162991
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Autor: 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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Autor

Michael O´Sullivan

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2012

Pagini

208

EAN

9781441162991

ISBN

1441162992

Enbook ID

04463420

Editura

Continuum Publishing Corporation

Greutate

494

Dimensiuni

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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