Книга: Adriana Cavarero «In Spite of Plato»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" This pathbreaking work pursues two interwoven themes. Firstly, it engages in a deconstruction of Ancient philosophers? texts mainly from Plato, but also from Homer and Parmenides in order to free four Greek female figures from the patriarchal discourse which for centuries had imprisoned them in a particular role. Secondly, it attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective. Building on the theory of sexual difference, Cavarero shows that death is the central category on which the whole edifice of traditional philosophy is based. By contrast, the category of birth provides the thread with which new concepts of feminist criticism can be woven together to establish a fresh way of thinking. Cavarero develops a philosophical narrative which, by re interpreting each of the four figures of Ancient thought, uncovers several images of the female desire for self representation. Plato himself had not foreseen that one day... ISBN:9780745615721 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (1995)
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Adriana Cavarero
Infobox Philosopher
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Adriana Cavarero (born 1947 in
Biography
Cavarero was educated at the University of Padua, where she wrote a thesis on philosophy and poetry, in 1971, and spent the first years of her Academic career. In 1983 she left Padua for the University of Verona, where she was co-founder of
Work
Cavarero’s interest in the intersection of political philosophy and feminist thought was further developed in "Stately Bodies" which examines the bodily metaphor in political discourse and in fictional depictions of politics, including
Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood (2000)
Definitively influenced by the work of
Cavarero claims that we perceive ourselves as narratable, as protagonists of a story that we long to hear from others. This desire for a story, for our story to be told, becomes the guiding element in the new approach to identity. Our identity is not possessed in advance, as an innate quality or inner self that we are able to master and express. It is rather the outcome of a relational practice, something given to us from another, in the form of a life-story, a biography.
For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression (2005)
Cavarero’s next book, "For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression", “re-think(s) the relation between speech and politics – announced in Aristotle’s formula whereby man’s nature as a political animal [zoon politikon] is bound up with man’s characterization as that animal which has speech [zoon logon echon] – by focusing her attention on the embodied uniqueness of the speaker as it is manifested in that speaker’s voice, addressed to another. In this way, she radically departs from more traditional conceptions of what constitutes ‘political speech,’ such as the signifying capacity of the speaker, the communicative capacity of discourse, or the semantic content of a given statement. As in her earlier work, Cavarero continues to develop and deepen a number of themes foregrounded by Hannah Arendt -- who asserts in "The Human Condition" that what matters in speech is not signification or ‘communication’ but rather the fact that ‘in acting and speaking, men show who they are, reveal actively their unique personal identities and thus make their appearance in the human world.’. Refining the radically phenomenological perspective that Arendt puts forth in her work, Cavarero locates the political sense of speech in the singularity of the speaker’s voice, the acoustic emission that emits from mouth to ear. For Cavarero this politics emerges from ‘the reciprocal communication of voices,’ wherein what comes to the fore is above all the embodied singularity of the speakers in relation to others, no matter what they say. [ Paul A. Kottman, “Introduction,” For More Than One Voice (Stanford University Press, 2005). ]
Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence (2008)
In her most recent book, Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence, Cavarero draws attention to various ways in which scenes of violence from the past century through the present (as well as what might be called ancient and early modern precursors to these scenes) cannot be adequately understood through the received categories of modern political philosophy -- ‘terrorism,’ ‘war,’ ‘friend/enemy,’ or ‘state versus non-state sanctioned actions’ -- and proposes a decisive shift in perspective. Taking note of the fact that, increasingly, we are dealing with victims who are almost all unarmed or defenseless – “inermi,” helpless – she argues that it is precisely this helplessness and these particular helpless people whose conditions and circumstances ought to orient our thinking about scenes of violence, rather than the socio-political aims or psychoanalytical perspectives of the perpetrators. Cavarero proposes the name “horrorism” for those forms of violence that are “crimes” which “offend the human condition at its ontological level.” Pairing, unexpectedly,
Endnotes and references
Bibliography
* "In Spite of Plato" (1995) ISBN 9780415914475
* "Relating Narratives" (2000) ISBN 9780415200585
* "Stately Bodies" (2002) ISBN 9780472096749
* "For more than one voice"
* "Horrorism: naming contemporary violence"
External links
* Adriana Cavarero website http://www.cavarero.eu [http://www.cavarero.eu]
Источник: Adriana Cavarero
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