Power of Gentleness : Meditations on the Risk of Living /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dufourmantelle, Anne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tenderness (Psychology)
Passivity (Psychology)
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > General.
Tendresse.
Passivite (Psychologie)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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