Birkbeck Women in Philosophy: Alison Stone, 'Being born and its significance for philosophy'
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
Birkbeck Department of Philosophy invites you to the first of a series of talks by prominent feminist theorists organised by Birkbeck Women in Philosophy.
Alison Stone is Professor of European Philosophy at Lancaster University and the author of books on Hegel, aesthetics and popular music, and feminist philosophy: Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy (2004), Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (2006), An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (2007), Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity (2011) and The Value of Popular Music (2016).
Abstract: In this talk I sketch how the fact that we are born shapes our condition as human beings. I take up the existentialist project of inquiring into the structure of meaningful human existence, but unlike other existentialists I explore natality, that is, human existence as it is shaped by our being born. Philosophers have generally ignored natality or failed to conceptualize it in its own right, although recent work in feminist philosophy has begun to rectify this. Taking natality into account transforms our view of human existence, shedding new light on our mortality, foregrounding our dependency on one another, and bringing additional phenomena – such as our relatedness to others and the temporal shape of human life – together in a new way.
Moved to B20 Malet St owing to popular demand.
Contact name:
Eden Davis
Contact phone:
02076316383