Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

Fordham University Press (2018)
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The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformationlinked to what the ancients called potentiality. Gentleness is a power.

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082327960X   9780823279623   9780823279609   0823279588

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