Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History
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 is interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, Derrida, the Romantics, Dickens and the Modernists. It examines what feminist writers Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray have made of the gendered biomythology constructed around the figure of the weaker…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-9564-7
- EAN: 9781441195647
- Produktnummer: 13808866
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 271 KB
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Michael O'Sullivan is Associate Professor in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of Michel Henry: Incarnation, Barbarism and Belief (2006).
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