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  title info:
    title: Natality
    sub title: toward a philosophy of birth
  name:
    name part: Banks, Jennifer
    name part: (Editor)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 251 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The miracle that saves the world -- The soil is still not rich enough -- The soul most alive to tenderness -- The workshop of filthy creation -- To be the instrument -- The will to change -- Ancient properties -- Epilogue.
  target audience: adult
  note: Jennifer Banks.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Birth (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Fertility, Human
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Childbirth
  classification: BD443 .B36 2023
  classification: 573.67
  identifier: 1324006390
  identifier: 9781324006398
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 221001
    record change date: 20230627194605.3
    record identifier: in00004725136