Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions

by Steven Connor

Book Overview

In a world that promotes assertion, agency, and empowerment, this book challenges us to revalue a range of actions and attitudes that have come to be disregarded or dismissed as merely passive. Mercy, resignation, politeness, restraint, gratitude, abstinence, losing well, apologizing, taking care: today, such behaviors are associated with negativity or lack. But the capacity to give way is better understood as positive action, at once intricate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503610837
• ISBN13: 9781503610835
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"