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Being Born - Birth and Philosophy (Paperback)
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Being Born - Birth and Philosophy (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
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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.
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