#cavarero

[sisyphean-revolt]

Certainly, philosophy has many refined ways of harmonizing its concepts on the obsessive timbre of death: above all, the concept of a nothing that displaces the being (ente) of ephemeral substance, and thus forces it to find refuge in the reign of an eternal and disenchanted being (essere) -- pure thought, as Parmenides and Hegel would say.

Adriana Cavarero, “Thinking Difference”

[sisyphean-revolt]

There are always facts, always appearances because every human is a corporeal appearing to the world; and to the need for meaning that these facts require, thought, as language, responds.

Adriana Cavarero, “Thinking Difference”

[sterwood-blog]

The politics of the local, having finally been liberated from the cartography of nations and the individualist ontology, in fact avoids imposing cultural identities on the unrepeatable uniqueness of every human being. Because it is faithful to the ontology of plurality, the local puts in play uniqueness without belongings and entrusts the sense of the relation to this alone. And this, in addition to evoking a passivity, implies first of all the preliminary activity of stripping ourselves of our western, eastern, Christian, Muslim, Jew, gay, straight, poor, rich, ignorant, learned, cynical, sad, happy—or even guilty or innocent—being. Indeed, the politics of the absolute local includes as a preliminary act the deconstruction of belongings, the marginalization of qualities, and the depoliticization of the what. What remains, because it was always there, is the question “who are you?” ad-dressed to the “you who are here.” This local, contextual space—which can be actively inaugurated anyway—is opened by this question in which the regulative principle of politics already resounds—namely, the priority of the who with respect to the what.

Cavarero, "For More Than One Voice", 205.

Peak liberalism/ideology. Oh god.

[sterwood-blog]

They are unique beings in flesh and bone who, unlike the abstract and universal "individual," have a face, a name, and a life story

In this sense, democracy becomes a product of language, and the linguistic bond between individuals becomes the community essence of democracy.

Do you ever just read something and just think "Noooooooooo" to yourself? I do. It just happened.

[sterwood-blog]

Cavarero provides an original and insightful rereading of this passage from Aristotle's Politics [the passage that equates the characterization of 'man' as both the political and speaking animal] in the pages that follow. She shows that Aristotle does not simply claim that main is political "because he speaks and thus mobilizes the intrinsic communicativity of language." Instead, she shows how for Aristotle, speech is, so to speak, that which distinguishes man from other political animals (like bees) because man is able to perceive and hence to speak of things that belong to the koninonia politike

A footnote to the introduction to Adriana Cavarero's "For More than One Voice"

Oh, this looks like it'll be pretty exciting.