Being-from-others: Reading Heidegger after Cavarero

Hypatia 23 (1):99-118 (2008)
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Abstract

: Drawing on Adriana Cavarero's account of natality, Guenther argues that Martin Heidegger overlooks the distinct ontological and ethical significance of birth as a limit that orients one toward an other who resists appropriation, even while handing down a heritage of possibilities that one can—and must—make one's own. Guenther calls this structure of natality Being-from-others, modifying Heidegger's language of inheritance to suggest an ethical understanding of existence as the gift of the other

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Lisa Guenther
Vanderbilt University

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Undoing Gender.Judith Butler - 2004 - Routledge.
Speculum of the Other Woman.Luce Irigaray - 1985 - Cornell University Press.
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