Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History

ISBN: 9781472568359 出版年：2012 页码：225 Michael O'Sullivan Bloomsbury Publishing

Introduction Part I: Philosophy 1. Akrasia and Weakness of the Will 2. The Flesh is Weak: Incarnating the Word 3. Daoism and Weakness: "Weakness is the means dao employs": 4. Kierkegaard's "despair of weakness" - Nietzsche's "metaphysics of weakness" 5. Gender theory and weakness: is there a "weaker vessel"? 6. Why is Derrida's sign violent? Radical passivity and givenness Part II: Literature 7. Negative Capability and Romantic Indolence 8. Dickens and the "experience of the common" 9. Modernist Impotence in Joyce and Eliot: "Words of Silent Power" 10. The Beckettian body: "The authentic weakness of being" 10. Vulnerability and "the animal" in J. M. Coetzee Conclusion - Humane Weakness Bibliography Index.