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Power of gentleness meditations on the risk of living / Anne Dufourmantelle.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, (c)2018.; (Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, (c)2015).Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823279623
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF698 .P694 2018
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Contents:
Subject: The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformationlinked to what the ancients called potentiality. Gentleness is a power.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction BF698.35.36 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1021001797

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Foreword: Philosophy in Furs; Translatorsâ#x80;#x99; Note; Introduction; Approach; Origins; Animality; Taking Care; Intelligence; Potential; The Sensory Cele bration (I); Sales Pitch; Language Sources; Justice and Forgiveness; East; A Silent Transformation; Feeling and Sensibility; The Symbolic Force of Gentleness; Free Form; Pure Gentleness?; Patrolling; Sensory Celebration (II); Counterfeits; Exhaustion; Penumbra; â#x80;#x9C;Master and Man,â#x80;#x9D; by Tolstoy; The Sensory Cele bration (III); Sublimation; Cruelties; In Hell; Listening; Trauma and Creation; Beyond the Confines

Clandestine GentlenessThe Sensory Celebration (IV); Childhood; Gentleness of Melancholy; Dolce Vita; A Gentle Revolution; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; Y

The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformationlinked to what the ancients called potentiality. Gentleness is a power.

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