Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body

by Corine Pelluchon

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This book seeks to replace the philosophy of the subject, underlying contemporary contractualism, with another philosophy. The ethics of vulnerability, which emphasizes the category of passivity, is the first phase in this philosophy of corporality, further supplemented in Nourishment by a philosophy of "living from," which takes the materiality of our existence seriously: hunger, oikos, space and time, place, and enjoyment.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:135007389X

ISBN13:9781350073890

Release Date:February 2019

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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Philosophy Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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