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Being-from-others: Reading Heidegger after Cavarero

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Lisa Guenther
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Drawing on Adriana Cavarero's account of natality, Guenther argues that Martin Heidegger overlooks the distinct ontological and ethical significance of birth as a limit that orients one toward an other who resists appropriation, even while handing down a heritage of possibilities that one can—and must—make one's own. Guenther calls this structure of natality Being-from-others, modifying Heidegger's language of inheritance to suggest an ethical understanding of existence as the gift of the other.

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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 2008, pp. 99 - 118
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Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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