Contemporary Italian women philosophers stretching the art of thinking

"Gathering the contributions of eleven contemporary Italian women thinkers who share a philosophical practice, Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers embraces a general interrelationality, fluidity, and overlapping of concepts for a border-crossing that affects what it means to be subjects tha...

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Weitere Verfasser: Benso, Silvia (HerausgeberIn), Roncalli, Elvira (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Albany, New York State University of New York Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy
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Zusammenfassung:"Gathering the contributions of eleven contemporary Italian women thinkers who share a philosophical practice, Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers embraces a general interrelationality, fluidity, and overlapping of concepts for a border-crossing that affects what it means to be subjects that are embodied and participants in the life of their communities, thereby shaping a sense of belonging. Common threads are revealed through the exploration of radically diverse themes (the body, subjectivity, power, freedom, equality, liberation, the emotions, symbolism and metaphors, maternity, reproduction, responsibility, the political, the economic) and approaches (autobiographical styles, personal narratives, rootedness in the everyday, advancement of relationality, empathic responsibility, passions, and commitment to the flourishing of the polis). In their differences, these previously unpublished essays give the reader a glimpse of the fecund and articulated philosophical work of women in the Italian context-a context which has not been and still is not always benign toward women's distinctive originality and creativity"--
Beschreibung:vii, 214 Seiten
23 cm
ISBN:9781438484914
978-1-4384-8491-4