{"product_id":"power-of-gentleness-9780823279586","title":"Power of Gentleness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because it is a symbolic force, and because it has a transformative ability over things and beings, it is a power. The simplicity of gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to both ethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformation linked to what the ancients called potentiality.   In our day, gentleness is sold to us under its related form of diluted mawkishness. By infantilizing it our era denies it. This is how we try to overcome the high demands of its subtletyno longer by fighting it, but by enfeebling it. Language itself is therefore perverted: what our society intends to give the human beings that it crushes gently, it does in the name of the highest values: ha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Philosophy in Furs by Catherine Malabou \u003cbr\u003e Translators’ Note \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Approach \u003cbr\u003e Origins\u003cbr\u003e Animality \u003cbr\u003e Taking Care \u003cbr\u003e Intelligence \u003cbr\u003e Potential \u003cbr\u003e The Sensory Celebration (I) \u003cbr\u003e Sales Pitch \u003cbr\u003e Language Sources \u003cbr\u003e Justice and Forgiveness \u003cbr\u003e East \u003cbr\u003e A Silent Transformation \u003cbr\u003e Feeling and Sensibility \u003cbr\u003e The Symbolic Force of Gentleness \u003cbr\u003e Free Form \u003cbr\u003e Pure Gentleness? \u003cbr\u003e Patrolling \u003cbr\u003e Sensory Celebration (II) \u003cbr\u003e Counterfeits \u003cbr\u003e Exhaustion \u003cbr\u003e Penumbra \u003cbr\u003e “Master and Man” by Tolstoy\u003cbr\u003e The Sensory Celebration (III) \u003cbr\u003e Sublimation \u003cbr\u003e Cruelties \u003cbr\u003e In Hell\u003cbr\u003e Listening \u003cbr\u003e Trauma and Creation \u003cbr\u003e At the Confines \u003cbr\u003e Clandestine Gentleness \u003cbr\u003e The Sensory Celebration (IV) \u003cbr\u003e Childhood \u003cbr\u003e Gentleness of Melancholy \u003cbr\u003e Dolce Vita \u003cbr\u003e A Gentle Revolution \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406151098711,"sku":"9780823279586","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/power-of-gentleness-9780823279586","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}