Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Adriana Cavarero (Author) Adriana Cavarero is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona. Her most recent book is Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude. Judith Butler (Author) Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Their many books include The Force of Nonviolence, Giving an Account of Oneself, and Gender Trouble. Bonnie Honig (Author) Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. Her most recent books are Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair and A Feminist Theory of Refusal. Timothy J. Huzar (Edited By) Timothy J. Huzar is an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton. Clare Woodford (Edited By) Clare Woodford is Director of the Critical Theory strand of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Brighton. She is the author of Disorienting Democracy: Politics of Emancipation.

Review :
This brilliant book engages Cavarero's work to re-imagine an ethics of nonviolence. Challenging the masculine individualism common to canonical thought and contemporary politics, the authors envision new forms of sociality rooted in bodily interdependence. Reading this book is like participating in an electrifying seminar with some of the most incisive feminist thinkers of our time.---Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University This indispensable volume engages with the brilliantly provocative work of the Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero. Imaginatively organized and well-introduced by the editors, the book illuminates, supplements, and generatively questions several of Cavarero's key concepts, among them the political idea of germinal democracy marked by an ethics of nonviolence.---Margaret Ferguson, University of California, Davis