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Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

By (author) Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler and Bonnie Honig

Edited by Timothy J. Huzar and Clare Woodford

Contributor(s): Olivia Guaraldo, Christine Battersby, Lorenzo Bernini, Mark Devenney, Simona Forti, Timothy J. Huzar and Clare Woodford

Pub Date: January 26, 2021

ISBN: 9780823290086

Page Count: 192

Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

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Description: Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence.

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together three major feminist thinkers—Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Bonnie Honig—to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence. The book consists of three longer essays by Cavarero, Butler, and Honig, followed by shorter responses by a range of scholars that widen the dialogue, drawing on post-Marxism, Italian feminism, queer theory, and lesbian and gay politics. Together, the authors contest the boundaries of their common project for a pluralistic, heterogeneous, but urgent feminist ethics of nonviolence.
Reviews: This brilliant book engages Cavarero’s work to re-imagine an ethics of nonviolence. Challenging the masculine individualism common to canonical thought and contemporary politics, the authors envision new forms of sociality rooted in bodily interdependence. Reading this book is like participating in an electrifying seminar with some of the most incisive feminist thinkers of our time.---Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University

This indispensable volume engages with the brilliantly provocative work of the Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero. Imaginatively organized and well-introduced by the editors, the book illuminates, supplements, and generatively questions several of Cavarero’s key concepts, among them the political idea of germinal democracy marked by an ethics of nonviolence.---Margaret Ferguson, University of California, Davis
Table of Contents: Prelude | 1
Timothy J. Huzar

Introduction: Adriana Cavarero, Feminisms, and an Ethics of Nonviolence | 7
Timothy J. Huzar and Clare Woodford

Scenes of Inclination | 33
Adriana Cavarero

Leaning Out, Caught in the Fall: Interdependency and Ethics in Cavarero | 46
Judith Butler

How to Do Things with Inclination: Antigones, with Cavarero | 63
Bonnie Honig

Scherzo

Thinking Materialistically with Locke, Lonzi, and Cavarero | 93
Olivia Guaraldo

Études

Cavarero, Kant, and the Arcs of Friendship | 109
Christine Battersby

Bad Inclinations: Cavarero, Queer Theories, and the Drive | 121
Lorenzo Bernini

Querying Cavarero’s Rectitude | 131
Mark Devenney

From Horrorism to the Gray Zone | 141
Simona Forti

Violence, Vulnerability, Ontology: Insurrectionary Humanism in Cavarero and Butler | 151
Timothy J. Huzar

Queer Madonnas: In Love and Friendship | 161
Clare Woodford

Coda | 177
Adriana Cavarero

Bibliography | 187

List of Contributors | 199

Index | 203
Details: ISBN-13 9780823290086
Published: 2021-01-26

Trim: 6.000in x 9.000in x 0.000in
Contributors: Contributions: Christine Battersby
Contributions: Lorenzo Bernini
By (author) Judith Butler
Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Their books include Who's Afraid of Gender? (2024), What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology (2022), The Force of Nonviolence (2020), Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015), Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009), Giving an Account of Oneself (2005), Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (2004), and Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990).
By (author) Adriana Cavarero
Adriana Cavarero is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona. Her most recent book is Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude.
Contributions: Mark Devenney
Contributions: Simona Forti
Contributions: Olivia Guaraldo
By (author) Bonnie Honig
Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. Her most recent books are Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair and A Feminist Theory of Refusal.
Contributions: Timothy J. Huzar
Timothy J. Huzar is an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton.
Contributions: Clare Woodford
Clare Woodford is Director of the Critical Theory strand of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Brighton. She is the author of Disorienting Democracy: Politics of Emancipation.