Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Barnett Newman: Adam’s Line 17
6. 2. Kant and the Newborn 25
7. 3. Virginia Woolf and the Shadow of the “I” 35
8. 4. Plato Erectus Sed . . . 45
9. 5. Men and Trees 57
10. 6. We Are Not Monkeys: On Erect Posture 65
11. 7. Hobbes and the Macroanthropos 71
12. 8. Elias Canetti: Upright Before the Dead 81
13. 9. Artemisia: The Allegory of Inclination 89
14. 10. Leonardo and Maternal Inclination 97
15. 11. Hannah Arendt: “A Child Has Been Born unto Us” 107
16. 12. Schemata for a Postural Ethics 121
17. Coda: Adieu to Lévinas 133
18. Notes 177