The Gift of the Other
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The Gift of the Other

Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction

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The Gift of the Other

Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction

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Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780791481363
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. THE GIFT OF THE OTHER
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. INTRODUCTION: The Gift of the Other
  5. 1. The “Facts” of Life:Beauvoir’s Account of Reproduction
  6. 2. The Body Politic:Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction
  7. 3. Welcome the Stranger:Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other
  8. 4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray,and the Transformation of Paternity
  9. 5. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations
  10. 6.Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics:The Question of Reproductive Choice
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index