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Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth Audiobook, by Jennifer Banks Play Audiobook Sample

Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth Audiobook

Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth Audiobook, by Jennifer Banks Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Jen Jayden Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798350821529

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

12

Longest Chapter Length:

58:18 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

17:15 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

40:11 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

An exhilarating exploration of natality, a much-needed counterpoint to mortality, drawing on the insights of brilliant writers and thinkers.

Birth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not solely an issue; it is a fundamental part of the human condition, and, alongside death, the most consequential event in human life. Yet it remains dramatically unexplored. Although we have long intellectual traditions of wrestling with mortality, few have ever heard of natality, the term political theorist Hannah Arendt used to describe birth's active role in our lives. In this ambitious, revelatory book, Jennifer Banks begins with Arendt's definition of natality as the "miracle that saves the world" to develop an expansive framework for birth's philosophical, political, spiritual, and aesthetic significance.

Banks focuses on seven renowned western thinkers to reveal a provocative countertradition of birth. She narrates these writers' own experiences alongside the generative ways they contended with natality in their work. Passionately intelligent and wide-ranging, Natality invites listeners to attend to birth as a challenging and life-affirming reminder of our shared humanity and our capacity for creative renewal.

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