{"product_id":"being-born-birth-and-philosophy-9780198845782","title":"Being Born: Birth and Philosophy","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eAlison 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\u003cbr\u003eperspective 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\u003cbr\u003eself, 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, \u003cbr\u003eas well as many debates in feminist and continental philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Stone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198845782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlison Stone, \u003cem\u003eLancaster University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlison Stone is Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University. She is the author of several books, including; \u003cem\u003ePetrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (SUNY 2004), \u003cem\u003eLuce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge 2006), \u003cem\u003eAn Introduction to Feminist Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (Polity 2007), \u003cem\u003eFeminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge 2011) and \u003cem\u003eThe Value of Popular Music\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). She is also editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (Edinburgh 2011) and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge 2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932119220339,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5c1597fd-a0b1-4e5f-84ba-da84d33f8d6c.jpg?v=1647790570","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/being-born-birth-and-philosophy-9780198845782","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}