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Power of Gentleness : Meditations on the Risk of Living /

The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformationlinked to what the ancients called potentiality. Gentle...

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Autor principal: Dufourmantelle, Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Contents; Foreword: Philosophy in Furs; Translatorsâ#x80;#x99; Note; Introduction; Approach; Origins; Animality; Taking Care; Intelligence; Potential; The Sensory Cele bration (I); Sales Pitch; Language Sources; Justice and Forgiveness; East; A Silent Transformation; Feeling and Sensibility; The Symbolic Force of Gentleness; Free Form; Pure Gentleness?; Patrolling; Sensory Celebration (II); Counterfeits; Exhaustion; Penumbra; â#x80;#x9C;Master and Man, â#x80;#x9D; by Tolstoy; The Sensory Cele bration (III); Sublimation; Cruelties; In Hell; Listening; Trauma and Creation; Beyond the Confines.
  • Clandestine GentlenessThe Sensory Celebration (IV); Childhood; Gentleness of Melancholy; Dolce Vita; A Gentle Revolution; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; Y.