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This volume is an investigation into the silence of the feminine
voice in Western thought, considering the important relationship
between maternity and philosophy. The author shows how maternity
has often been appropriated by some male theorists and explores
ways of approaching motherhood and pregnancy from a feminist
perspective. Drawing on examples such as Plato's allegory of the
cave, the "productive man" of Marx philosophy, Sigmund Freud's and
Melanie Klein's writings on the mother and the mother-daughter
relationship, and the psychoanalytic and feminist insights of
Irigaray and Kristeva, she shows how terms such as denial,
repression and foreclosure offer insight into the philosophical
construction of the maternal body. The book also draws upon the
work of Althusser and Lyotard, showing how their work bears
importantly on the silence of the feminine. Throughout the text
Michelle Boulous Walker questions the assumptions that silence is
simply the absence of language and presents new strategies for
understanding how silence operates.
In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration
and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to
think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take.
Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution makes the case for
thinking about reading in philosophical terms. Boulous Walker
argues that philosophy involves the patient work of thought; in
this it resembles the work of art, which invites and implores us to
take our time and to engage with the world. At its best, philosophy
teaches us to read slowly; in fact, philosophy is the art of
reading slowly - and this inevitably clashes with many of our
current institutional practices and demands. Slow reading shares
something in common with contemporary social movements, such as
that devoted to slow food; it offers us ways to engage the
complexity of the world. With the help of writers as diverse as
Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Woolf, Adorno, Levinas, Critchley,
Beauvoir, Le Doeuff, Irigaray, Cixous, Weil, and others, Boulous
Walker offers a foundational text in the emerging field of slow
philosophy, one that explores the importance of unhurried time in
establishing our institutional encounters with complex and
demanding works.
In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration
and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to
think about the act of reading and the many forms that it can take.
Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution makes the case for
thinking about reading in philosophical terms. Boulous Walker
argues that philosophy involves the patient work of thought; in
this it resembles the work of art, which invites and implores us to
take our time and to engage with the world. At its best, philosophy
teaches us to read slowly; in fact, philosophy is the art of
reading slowly - and this inevitably clashes with many of our
current institutional practices and demands. Slow reading shares
something in common with contemporary social movements, such as
that devoted to slow food; it offers us ways to engage the
complexity of the world. With the help of writers as diverse as
Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Woolf, Adorno, Levinas, Critchley,
Beauvoir, Le Doeuff, Irigaray, Cixous, Weil, and others, Boulous
Walker offers a foundational text in the emerging field of slow
philosophy, one that explores the importance of unhurried time in
establishing our institutional encounters with complex and
demanding works.
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