The Gift of Kinds The Good in Abundance / an ethic of the earth
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
16.09.1999
Verlag
State University Of New York PressSeitenzahl
323
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.3/1.7 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7914-4254-8
In this fourth volume of Stephen David Ross's ongoing project reexamining Western philosophical tradition, The Gift of Kinds explores the order of things, linking the kinds of the natural world to disciplinary distinctions and to social divisions by gender, race, class, and nationality. It pursues a local and contingent ethics that pervades human-life and the earth that responds to the expressiveness of things everywhere, resisting the tyranny of kinds, human and otherwise.
The book examines the idea of natural and human kinds as requisite to any thought of heterogeneity and any resistance to neutrality, developed in relation to ecological and environmental issues. The giving of the good is understood in terms of species and kinds, linked with genealogy: family, gender, race, kin, and kind. Levinas's sense of exposure -- expression and proximity -- is interpreted as propinquity. Kinds are interpreted as intermediary figures between histories of domination and celebrations of responsibility, between essentialism and identity politics.
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