Being Born

Birth and Philosophy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID24156642
AutoresA Stone (0000-0001-9621-8263, Lancaster University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Data de publicação2019-09-26
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoBeing Born (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198845782.001.0001
OpenAlexW4240639149
ISBN9780198845782
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas100

This book gives the first systematic philosophical account of how being born shapes our condition as human beings. Drawing on both feminist philosophy and the existentialist project of inquiring into the structure of meaningful human existence, the book explores how human existence is natal, that is, is shaped by the way that we are born. Taking natality into account transforms our view of human existence and illuminates how many of its aspects hang together and are connected with our birth. These aspects include dependency; the relationality of the self; vulnerability; reception and inheritance; embeddedness in social power; situatedness; and radical contingency. Considering natality also sheds new light on anxiety, mortality, and the temporality of human life. This book offers an original perspective on human existence which bears on many debates in feminist and continental philosophy and around death and the meaning of life.

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