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Giving Way - Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions (Paperback)
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Giving Way - Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions (Paperback)
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In a world that promotes assertion, agency, and empowerment, this
book challenges us to revalue a range of actions and attitudes that
have come to be disregarded or dismissed as merely passive. Mercy,
resignation, politeness, restraint, gratitude, abstinence, losing
well, apologizing, taking care: today, such behaviors are
associated with negativity or lack. But the capacity to give way is
better understood as positive action, at once intricate and
demanding. Moving from intra-human common courtesies, to
human-animal relations, to the global civility of human-inhuman
ecological awareness, the book's argument unfolds on progressively
larger scales. In reminding us of the existential threat our drives
pose to our own survival, Steven Connor does not merely champion a
family of behaviors; he shows that we are more adept practitioners
of them than we realize. At a time when it is on the wane, Giving
Way offers a powerful defense of civility, the versatile human
capacity to deflect aggression into sociability and to exercise
power over power itself.
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