Natality : toward a philosophy of birth /
Birth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not solely an issue; it is a fundamental part of the human condition, and, alongside death, the most consequential event in human life. Yet it remains dra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Birth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not solely an issue; it is a fundamental part of the human condition, and, alongside death, the most consequential event in human life. Yet it remains dramatically unexplored. Although we have long intellectual traditions of wrestling with mortality, few have ever heard of natality, the term political theorist Hannah Arendt used to describe birth's active role in our lives. In this ambitious, revelatory book, Jennifer Banks begins with Arendt's definition of natality as the 'miracle that saves the world' to develop an expansive framework for birth's philosophical, political, spiritual and aesthetic significance. |
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| Physical Description: | 251 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1324006390 9781324006398 |