Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero's Political Thought

Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction
	An Unlikely Duo: Arendt and Irigaray
	Cavarero’s Political Bodies
	Summaries of Contributions
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part One: Tracing Cavarero’s Political Thought
	1. Inclining toward Democracy: From Plato to Arendt • Olivia Guaraldo
		Notes
		Bibliography
	2. Cavarero as an Arendtian Feminist • Julian Honkasalo
		Introduction
		Articulating a Maternal Ontology through Arendt
		Undoing Matricide
		Sexed Natality
		Femininity and the Philosophy of Voice
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part Two: “Who engenders politics?”
	3. On the Politics of the Who: Cavarero, Nancy, and Rancière • Timothy J. Huzar
		Who Engenders Politics?
		Who Comes after the Subject?
		What Subject?
		A Politics of Who
		Notes
		Bibliography
	4. “Taking the Thread for a Walk”: Feminist Resistance to the Philosophical Order in Adriana Cavarero and María Lugones • Paula Landerreche Cardillo
		Cavarero’s Penelope
		Penelope Trapped in the Weaving Room
		Active Subjectivity and Sense Making
		On Walking
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	5. Stealing and Critical Fabulation: The Counter-Historical Methods of Adriana Cavarero and Saidiya Hartman • Rachel Silverbloom
		Introduction
		Cavarero Steals Penelope
		Hartman Fabulates Venus
		Generative Failures, Radical Futilities
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part Three: The Body in Politics: Conversations with Materialisms
	6. One’s Body in Political Engagement: Changing the Relation between Public and Private • Elisabetta Bertolino
		Introduction
		When Body Politics Becomes Necessity and Security
		Hannah Arendt’s Idea of Body Politics
		Engaging One’s Vulnerable Body in Cavarero’s Political Vision
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	7. Inclining toward New Forms of Life: Cavarero, Agamben, and Hartman • Rachel Jones
		Cavarero’s schielende Blick
		Antigone and the Foreclosure of Life-Forming Power
		From Maternal Generative Power to a Relational Ontology
		Wayward Gestures of Living
		Notes
		Bibliography
	8. Bodies in Relation: Ontology, Ethics, and Politics in Adriana Cavarero and Giorgio Agamben • Laurie E. Naranch
		How Life and Bodies Matter
		Exposures and Figures of the Thinkable
		Bodies in Relation, or Thinking Otherwise through Altruistic Care or Destituent Power
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part Four: Political Violence, Voice, and Relational Selves
	9. Sexual Violence as Ontological Violence: Narration, Selfhood, and the Destruction of Singularity • Fanny Söderbäck
		Relational and Vulnerable Selfhood: On Being Made and Unmade by Others
		Horrorism as Ontological Violence: From Vulnerability to Helplessness
		Sexual Violence as Ontological Violence: Rape and the Destruction of the Self
		The Redemptive Power of Narration: Living to Tell and Telling to Live
		Narrative Against Destruction: Restoring Relational Selfhood
		Notes
		Bibliography
	10. Being Robbed of One’s Voice: On Listening and Political Violence in Adriana Cavarero • María del Rosario Acosta López
		From Seeing to Listening in Adriana Cavarero’s Work
		The Gorgon’s Soundless Howl: On Voice and Political Violence
		“And Do Not Touch Me”: Having One’s Voice and Listening Colonized
		Afterword
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part Five: Uncanny Bodies
	11. Elena Ferrante and the Uncanny of Motherhood • Adriana Cavarero
		Notes
		Bibliography
Appendix 1: Works by Cavarero in English
	Books
	Journal Articles
	Book Chapters
	Interviews/Conversations
Appendix 2: Secondary Bibliography on Cavarero
Contributors
Index