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Philosophy and vulnerability : Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde

Title
Philosophy and vulnerability : Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde / Matthew R. McLennan, Saint Paul University, Canada.
Author
McLennan, Matthew R.
Publication
  • London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
ix, 183 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense of the finitude and fragility of human life, Philosophy and Vulnerability provocatively marshals three disciplinary 'nonphilosophers' to make its argument: French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat, journalist and masterful cultural commentator Joan Didion and feminist poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. Through this encounter, this book suggests ways in which rigorous attention to difference and diversity must nourish a militant philosophical universalism in the future."--Back cover.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-177) and index.
Contents
Introduction : towards a definition of philosophy which incorporates vulnerability -- Catherine Breillat I : an erotic suspension of the ethical -- John Didion : Becoming frail -- Audre Lorde : we must count learn to count the living with the same particular attention with which we number the dead -- Catherine Breillat II : Embrace of Weakness? -- Conclusion : Vulnerability and the profession.
Call Number
JFE 19-6086
ISBN
  • 9781350004153
  • 1350004154
OCLC
1079199954
Author
McLennan, Matthew R., author.
Title
Philosophy and vulnerability : Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde / Matthew R. McLennan, Saint Paul University, Canada.
Publisher
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-177) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-6086
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