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Being Born : Birth and Philosophy

by Alison Stone

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Format Paperback / Softback
Book Series Studies in Feminist Philosophy
ISBN-10 0192872303
ISBN-13 9780192872302
Publisher Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jul 21st, 2022
Print length 288 Pages
Weight 340 grams
Dimensions 13.30 x 21.80 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge Social & political philosophy Sociology: birth
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Alison Stone investigates how human existence is conditioned by the fact that it begins with birth. How does birth shape the way we are in the world, and the meaning of our lives? Stone brings natality into philosophical view, offering fascinating insights into the human condition.
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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