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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 July 2022
- ISBN 9780192872302
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 216x132x15 mm
- Weight 336 g
- Language English 280
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Short description:
Alison Stone investigates how human existence is conditioned by the fact that it begins with birth. How does birth shape the way we are in the world, and the meaning of our lives? Stone brings natality into philosophical view, offering fascinating insights into the human condition.
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All human beings are born and all human beings die. In these two ways we are finite: our lives begin and our lives come to an end. Historically philosophers have concentrated attention on our mortality—and comparatively little has been said about being born and how it shapes our existence. Alison Stone sets out to overcome this oversight by providing a systematic philosophical account of how being born shapes our condition as human beings. Drawing on both feminist philosophy and existentialist concerns about the structure of meaningful human existence, Stone offers an original perspective on human existence. She explores how human existence 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 are connected with our birth. These aspects include dependency, the relationality of the self, vulnerability, reception and inheritance of culture and history, 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 therefore bears on death and the meaning of life, as well as many debates in feminist and continental philosophy.
Being Born is an excellent contribution to overcoming the philosophical neglect around being born. . . . This book is a rare gem because Stone examines being born within the framework of existential philosophy. . . . an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in philosophical reflections on birth. . . . Alison Stone provides valuable insights into how the meaningful structure of our existence is conditioned by being born. She also offers a fresh perspective on the philosophical concept of mortality as related to natality.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Towards a Philosophy of Being Born
Birth and Natality in Feminist Philosophy
History, Inheritance, and Vulnerability
Dependency, Relationality, Power, and Situatedness
The Radical Contingency of Being Born
Birth Anxieties
Natality and Mortality
Temporality, the Gift, and Being Born
