Power of Gentleness : : Meditations on the Risk of Living /

Power of Gentleness : : Meditations on the Risk of Living / / Anne Dufourmantelle.

Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because it is a symbolic force, and because it has a transformative ability over things and beings, it is a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Dufourmantelle, Anne,
TeilnehmendeR:
Malabou, Catherine.
Payne, Katherine.
Sallé, Vincent.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (152 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword: Philosophy in Furs
  • Translators' Note
  • Introduction
  • Approach
  • Origins
  • Animality
  • Taking Care
  • Intelligence
  • Potential
  • The Sensory Celebration (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
  • "Master and Man," by Tolstoy
  • The Sensory Celebration (III)
  • Sublimation
  • Cruelties
  • In Hell
  • Listening
  • Trauma and Creation
  • Beyond the Confines
  • Clandestine Gentleness
  • The Sensory Celebration (IV)
  • Childhood
  • Gentleness of Melancholy
  • Dolce Vita
  • A Gentle Revolution
  • Notes
  • Index

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