Levinas and the politics of reproduction
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Guenther, Lisa
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 34 2006
- Thesaurus
- moederschap, voortplanting, filosofie, ethiek, feminisme
- Description
- The author describes ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray and Kristeva, she outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity.