Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions (Connor Steven)(Paperback)
EAN: 9781503610835
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
Cena 769 Kč v 1 obchodě
Obchody, které prodávají Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions (Connor Steven)(Paperback)
Šaría pre nemoslimov - Warner BillAltinbesik
- Janoušek EvženSlaďák
- Riceová PhilippaSvůdnost černé barvyVeselí prváci50 vecí, ktoré si môžeš vyrobiť na VeľLidové vánoční ozdobyYankee Candle Aromatická svíčka ClassiPradávná medicína - Wolf-Dieter StorlThe Science of Discworld IV Judgement MFP Škoní výukové hodiny - s obrázkem Stíratelná tabulka pro 1. ročník - nev