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9780791442548

The Gift of Kinds: The Good in Abundance : An Ethic of the Earth

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791442548

  • ISBN10:

    0791442543

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-09-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Summary

In this fourth volume of Stephen David Ross's ongoing project reexamining Western philosophical tradition, The Gift of Kinds explores the order of things, linking the kinds of the natural world to disciplinary distinctions and to social divisions by gender, race, class, and nationality. It pursues a local and contingent ethics that pervades human-life and the earth that responds to the expressiveness of things everywhere, resisting the tyranny of kinds, human and otherwise.

The book examines the idea of natural and human kinds as requisite to any thought of heterogeneity and any resistance to neutrality, developed in relation to ecological and environmental issues. The giving of the good is understood in terms of species and kinds, linked with genealogy: family, gender, race, kin, and kind. Levinas's sense of exposure -- expression and proximity -- is interpreted as propinquity. Kinds are interpreted as intermediary figures between histories of domination and celebrations of responsibility, between essentialism and identity politics.

Author Biography

Stephen David Ross is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of many books including The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art; The Gift of Truth: Gathering the Good; The Gift of Touch: Embodying the Good; and editor of Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory, all published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

General Preface to the Project: Gifts of the Good xiii
Introduction: The Abundance of Kinds 1(12)
Woman's Kinds
13(14)
Ranking Kinds
27(22)
Nature's Kinds
49(16)
Ordering Kinds
65(14)
Becoming Kinds
79(18)
Blood Kinds
97(16)
Consuming Kinds
113(12)
Stockpiling Kinds
125(16)
Strange Kinds
141(18)
Ecological Kinds
159(16)
Weaving Kinds
175(12)
Modern Kinds
187(16)
Abundant Kinds
203(12)
Earthly Kinds
215(22)
Notes 237(30)
Bibliography 267(36)
Index 303

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