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DESCRIPTION:The Contemporary and Philosophy + Literature  are happy to invi
 te you to TWO events on Wednesday\, February 28\, 2024 featuring Jennifer 
 Banks\, author of Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth (W.W. Norton\, 20
 23) and senior executive editor at Yale University Press.\n\n"The Academic
  Press: A View from the Inside"\n12:00 pm (Brown Bag Lunch)\nPigott Hall\,
  Bldg. 260\, Rm 216\n\n"Celebrating Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth
 "\n5:00 pm\nPigott Hall\, Bldg. 260\, Rm 252\nRSVP\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nABOUT 
 THE BOOK: \n\nAlthough we have long intellectual traditions of wrestling w
 ith mortality\, few have ever heard of natality\, the term political theor
 ist Hannah Arendt used to describe birth’s active role in our lives. In 
 this ambitious\, revelatory book\, Jennifer Banks begins with Arendt’s d
 efinition of natality as the “miracle that saves the world” to develop
  an expansive framework for birth’s philosophical\, political\, spiritua
 l\, and aesthetic significance. Banks focuses on seven renowned western th
 inkers—Arendt\, Friedrich Nietzsche\, Mary Wollstonecraft\, Mary Shelley
 \, Sojourner Truth\, Adrienne Rich\, and Toni Morrison —to reveal a prov
 ocative countertradition of birth. She narrates these writers’ own exper
 iences alongside the generative ways they contended with natality in their
  work. Passionately intelligent and wide-ranging\, Natality invites reader
 s to attend to birth as a challenging and life-affirming reminder of our s
 hared humanity and our capacity for creative renewal. \n\n \n\nABOUT JENNI
 FER BANKS:\n\nJennifer Banks is the author of Natality: Toward a Philosoph
 y of Birth\, published in May 2023 by W.W. Norton. Her work has been revie
 wed or featured in The Washington Post\, Aeon\, Lithub\, the Los Angeles R
 eview of Books\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus\, Current\, Comment\, Big T
 hink\, The Boston Review\, The Best American Poetry\, and more. A graduate
  of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she is Senior Ex
 ecutive Editor at Yale University Press where she has acquired books on li
 terature\, religion\, and Philosophy since 2007. She has also worked at IC
 M Partners\, the Continuum International Publishing Group\, and Harvard Un
 iversity Press.
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LOCATION:Building 260\, Pigott Hall\, Rm 252
SUMMARY:Celebrating Natality: Toward A Philosophy of Birth
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 _a_philosophy_of_birth
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