This study charts a history of weakness in a selection of canonical
works in literature and philosophy. Examining the nature of
weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and
philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a
selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael
O'Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and
exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this
first book-length study of the concept explores weakness as it
interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, the Romantics, Dickens and the
Modernists. It examines what feminist critics Elaine Showalter and
Luce Irigaray make of the figure of the "weaker vessel" and
considers philosophical notions such as radical passivity, a
"syntax of weakness" and human vulnerability in the work of Derrida
and Beckett and Coetzee. Through analysis of these differing
versions of weakness, O'Sullivan's study challenges the popular
myth that aligns masculine identity with strength and force and
presents a humane weakness as a guiding motif for debates in
ethics.
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