Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

Adriana Cavarero (Author), Judith Butler (Author), Bonnie Honig (Author), Timothy J. Huzar (Edited by), Clare Woodford (Edited by), Olivia Guaraldo (Contributions by), Christine Battersby (Contributions by), Lorenzo Bernini (Contributions by), Mark Devenney (Contributions by), Simona Forti (Contributions by), Timothy J. Huzar (Contributions by), Clare Woodford (Contributions by)

9780823290093

Paperback / softback, published 26 January 2021

192 pages, 12 b/w illustrations
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.313 kg

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero's call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence.
Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together three major feminist thinkers—Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Bonnie Honig—to debate Cavarero's call for a postural ethics of nonviolence. The book consists of three longer essays by Cavarero, Butler, and Honig, followed by shorter responses by a range of scholars that widen the dialogue, drawing on post-Marxism, Italian feminism, queer theory, and lesbian and gay politics. Together, the authors contest the boundaries of their common project for a pluralistic, heterogeneous, but urgent feminist ethics of nonviolence.

Prelude 1
Timothy J. Huzar
Introduction: Adriana Cavarero, Feminisms, and an Ethics of Nonviolence 7
Timothy J. Huzar and Clare Woodford
Scenes of Inclination 33
Adriana Cavarero
Leaning Out, Caught in the Fall: Interdependency and Ethics in Cavarero 46
Judith Butler
How to Do Things with Inclination: Antigones, with Cavarero 63
Bonnie Honig
Scherzo
Thinking Materialistically with Locke, Lonzi, and Cavarero 93
Olivia Guaraldo
Études
Cavarero, Kant, and the Arcs of Friendship 109
Christine Battersby
Bad Inclinations: Cavarero, Queer Theories, and the Drive 121
Lorenzo Bernini
Querying Cavarero's Rectitude 131
Mark Devenney
From Horrorism to the Gray Zone 141
Simona Forti
Violence, Vulnerability, Ontology: Insurrectionary Humanism in Cavarero and Butler 151
Timothy J. Huzar
Queer Madonnas: In Love and Friendship 161
Clare Woodford
Coda 177
Adriana Cavarero
Bibliography 187
List of Contributors 199
Index 203