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The cudgel and the caress : reflections on cruelty and tenderness
- Title
- The cudgel and the caress : reflections on cruelty and tenderness / David Farrell Krell.
- Author
- Krell, David Farrell
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 311 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Explores the enduring significance of tenderness and cruelty in a range of works across philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. Divided into two parts, the book initially focuses on tenderness, with the author delivering original readings of Homer's "Iliad," Sophocles's "Antigone," and writings by Hölderlin, Hegel, Freud, and Derrida that deal with the importance of tenderness and the tragic consequences of its absence. Part 1 concludes with an extended reading of Robert Musil's "Man Without Qualities", in which the author analyzes the tender relationship between Ulrich and Agathe. In Part 2, the author begins by examining Otto Rank's "Birth Trauma," which reflects on the tenderness of gestation in the womb and the cruel necessity of birth. He then turns to an examination of cruelty in general, focusing on Derrida's challenge to contemporary psychoanalysis, his opposition between Kant and Nietzsche, and his analysis (and indictment) of the death penalty. Groundbreaking and insightful, the book provides a rare philosophical treatment of subjects vital to the world we live in.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Key to the principal sources cited -- Introduction. Part 1 Tenderness (Zärtlichkeit) : Tenderness and tragedy -- Homer's Iliad, Hölderlin's Briseiad -- Tender Antigone: forever younger -- Tender Schlegel, irascible Hegel -- Pulling strings wins no wisdom -- A woman without qualities? Part 2 Cruelty (Grausamkeit) : Caress of gestation, cudgel of birth -- The nervous system of a specter -- Freedom, imputability, cruelty -- Cruelty, power, art, tenderness. Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-4568
- ISBN
- 9781438472973
- 1438472978
- 9781438472997 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018014242
- OCLC
- 1044778513
- Author
- Krell, David Farrell, author.
- Title
- The cudgel and the caress : reflections on cruelty and tenderness / David Farrell Krell.
- Publisher
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophySUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-4568