In this fourth volume of Stephen David Ross's ongoing project
reexamining Western philosophical tradition, The Gift of Kinds
explores the order of things, linking the kinds of the natural
world to disciplinary distinctions and to social divisions by
gender, race, class, and nationality. It pursues a local and
contingent ethics that pervades human-life and the earth that
responds to the expressiveness of things everywhere, resisting the
tyranny of kinds, human and otherwise.
The book examines the idea of natural and human kinds as
requisite to any thought of heterogeneity and any resistance to
neutrality, developed in relation to ecological and environmental
issues. The giving of the good is understood in terms of species
and kinds, linked with genealogy: family, gender, race, kin, and
kind. Levinas's sense of exposure -- expression and proximity -- is
interpreted as propinquity. Kinds are interpreted as intermediary
figures between histories of domination and celebrations of
responsibility, between essentialism and identity politics.
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