Adriana Cavarero Quotes
Adriana Cavarero is an Italian feminist philosopher, professor emerita at the University of Verona, and one of the leading voices of contemporary Italian thought of sexual difference. In Spite of Plato reread the Western philosophical canon from the standpoint of female figures suppressed by it, while Relating Narratives and For More than One Voice developed a philosophy of the unique self constituted in the act of being narrated and addressed by another. The quotes below are attributed to Adriana Cavarero, organized by topic.
Adriana Cavarero on Knowledge
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“Once I stop asking, "Who are you?" and once I assume I know you, I am violent toward you.”
On the narratable self and relationality -
“On the narratable self and relationality”
Once I stop asking, "Who are you?" and once I assume I know you, I am violent toward you.
Adriana Cavarero on Life
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“A voice signifies a living person with a unique sound the human voice is revealing of the speaker, regardless of what is said."*”
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Adriana Cavarero on Love
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Attributed to Adriana Cavarero:
“We are vulnerable not because we are weak, but because we incline toward each other.”
Adriana Cavarero on Mind
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“The self is born in the act of being narrated by another.”
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“Voice is older than speech and outlasts the words it carries.”
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“The upright self of Western metaphysics is a self that has refused to lean.”
Adriana Cavarero on Politics
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Attributed to Adriana Cavarero:
“Plato's republic was built on the suppression of women's stories; we may yet imagine another.”
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“If the human body appears in its nakedness, stripped of all cover, it becomes a place where the whole species is revealed in its elemental condition. A hairless body, a naked body, and what is more, a body of a newborn, are all, in this way, reduced to a state of extreme vulnerability and hence to the sheer condition of defenselessness.”
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