Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero's call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence.Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together three major feminist thinkers-Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Bonnie Honig-to debate Cavarero's call for a postural ethics of nonviolence. The book consists of three longer essays by Cavarero, Butler, and Honig, followed by shorter responses by a range of scholars that widen the dialogue, drawing on post-Marxism, Italian feminism, queer theory, and lesbian and gay politics. Together, the authors contest the boundaries of their common project for a pluralistic, heterogeneous, but urgent feminist ethics of nonviolence.

Prelude | 1Timothy J. HuzarIntroduction: Adriana Cavarero, Feminisms, and an Ethics of Nonviolence | 7Timothy J. Huzar and Clare WoodfordScenes of Inclination | 33Adriana CavareroLeaning Out, Caught in the Fall: Interdependency and Ethics in Cavarero | 46Judith ButlerHow to Do Things with Inclination: Antigones, with Cavarero | 63Bonnie HonigScherzoThinking Materialistically with Locke, Lonzi, and Cavarero | 93Olivia GuaraldoÉtudesCavarero, Kant, and the Arcs of Friendship | 109Christine BattersbyBad Inclinations: Cavarero, Queer Theories, and the Drive | 121Lorenzo BerniniQuerying Cavarero's Rectitude | 131Mark DevenneyFrom Horrorism to the Gray Zone | 141Simona FortiViolence, Vulnerability, Ontology: Insurrectionary Humanism in Cavarero and Butler | 151Timothy J. HuzarQueer Madonnas: In Love and Friendship | 161Clare WoodfordCoda | 177Adriana CavareroBibliography | 187List of Contributors | 199Index | 203