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Weakness: A Literary And Philosophical History

A Literary and Philosophical History

by Michael O'Sullivan

  • Hardback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

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For readers interested in literary and philosophical insights

Challenges misconceptions of weakness and strength

You will gain a deeper understanding of human vulnerability

This book explores the concept of weakness in literature and philosophy.

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This study charts a history of weakness in a selection of canonical works in literature and philosophy. Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O'Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the concept explores weakness as it interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, the Romantics, Dickens and the Modernists. It examines what feminist critics Elaine Showalter and Luce Irigaray make of the figure of the "weaker vessel" and considers philosophical notions such as radical passivity, a "syntax of weakness" and human vulnerability in the work of Derrida and Beckett and Coetzee. Through analysis of these differing versions of weakness, O'Sullivan's study challenges the popular myth that aligns masculine identity with strength and force and presents a humane weakness as a guiding motif for debates in ethics.
Weakness: A Literary And Philosophical History and Analysis Of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Analysis Of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingWeakness: A Literary And Philosophical History

  • Author

    Michael O'Sullivan

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    July 2012

  • Weight

    495g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441162991

  • ISBN-10

    1441162992

  • Eden Code

    4639374

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