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
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Summary: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. Gentleness is a power.
Physical Description:1 online resource (152 pages).
ISBN:9780823279623

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