Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

by Anne Dufourmantelle

Book Overview

Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness--but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentleness is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary force of resistance within ethics and politics. In this powerful rethinking by a renowned philosopher and psychoanalyst, whose untimely death captured worldwide attention, gentleness becomes a series of embodied paradoxes: power that is also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082327960X
• ISBN13: 9780823279609
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.6"