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"Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons--even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly important and original book, Lisa Guenther examines the death-in-life experience of solitary confinement in America from the early nineteenth century to today's supermax prisons. Documenting how solitary confinement undermines prisoners' sense of identity and their ability to understand the world, Guenther demonstrates the real effects of forcibly isolating a person for weeks, months, or years. Drawing on the testimony of prisoners and the work of philosophers and social activists from Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Frantz Fanon and Angela Davis, the author defines solitary confinement as a kind of social death. It argues that isolation exposes the relational structure of being by showing what happens when that structure is abused--when prisoners are deprived of the concrete relations with others on which our existence as sense-making creatures depends. Because of this, solitary confinement is beyond a form of racial or political violence; it is also an assault on being itself. A searing and unforgettable indictment, Solitary Confinement reveals what the devastation wrought by the torture of solitary confinement tells us about what it means to be human--and why humanity is so often destroyed when we separate prisoners from all other people."--

Intro -- THE GIFT OF THE OTHER -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Gift of the Other -- A FEMINIST APPROACH TO LEVINAS -- A LEVINASIAN APPROACH TO FEMINISM -- BIRTH, TIME, ETHICS -- 1. The "Facts" of Life: Beauvoir's Account of Reproduction -- TAKE 1: B IRTH AS A PROJECT -- TAKE 2: B IRTH AS AN AMBIGUOUS SITUATION -- 2. The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction -- V ITA ACTIVA: LABOR, WORK, ACTION -- THE TEMPORALITY OF ACTION:PROMISE AND FORGIVENESS -- THINKING THROUGH NATALITY -- REPRODUCING NATALITY:CAVARERO'S READING OF ARENDT -- 3. Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other -- DERRIDA AND THE G IF T OF THE IMPOSSIBLE -- CIXOUS AND THE GIFT OF THE FEMININE -- LEVINAS AND THE GIFT OF HOSPITALITY -- I AM WELCOMED: FROM ETHOS TO OIKOS -- YOU ARE WELCOME: FROM OIKOS TO ETHOS -- 4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray,and the Transformation of Paternity -- PATERNITY AS INFINITE DISCONTINUITY -- OTHERWISE THAN PATERNITY:IRIGARAY READING LEVINAS -- FROM PATERNITY TO THE MATERNAL BODY:ISAIAH 49 -- 5. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations -- TIME AND THE MATERNAL BODY -- ETHICS AND HERETHICS -- MOSES AND HIS MOTHERS: NUMBERS 11:12 -- 6. Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice -- DEFENDING THE IMAGINARY DOMAIN:DRUCILLA CORNELL -- LEVINAS BETWEEN ETHICS AND POLITICS -- ETHICS, POLITICS, AND THE PROSPECT OF "UNBORN MOTHERS" -- ALTERED MATERNITIES -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

A group of women who were incarcerated at Canada's first federal Prison for Women (P4W) have been fighting to create a memorial garden since the prison closed in 2000. In 2017, the prison was sold to a private developer who plans to convert the historic building and grounds into condos, retail, and office space. What does it mean to remember the dead, and to fight for the living, at a time when neoliberal common sense demands the efficient conversion of a place of suffering and death into a "heritage building" on "prime real estate"? How might a collective practice of radical imagination help to resist the commodification of memory into a tourist attraction or an aesthetic improvement of private property? And what is the relation between memory, healing, and accountability in a place where state violence, gender domination, and settler colonialism intersect?

Irigaray's early work seeks to multiply possibilities for women's self-expression by recovering a sexual difference in which male and female are neither the same nor opposites, but irreducibly different modes of embodiment. In her more recent work, however, Irigaray has emphasized the duality of the sexes at the expense of multiplicity, enshrining the heterosexual couple as the model of sexual ethics. Alison Stone's recent revision of Irigaray supplements her account of sexual duality with a theory of bodily multiplicity derived from Butler, Nietzsche, and certain German Romantics; but to the extent that Stone maintains the primacy of sexual duality, her revision fails to address the claims of multiplicity on their own terms. In this paper, I interpret a passage from Marcel Proust's novel, Sodom and Gomorrah, in order to develop an alternative theory of sexual difference in which sexual duality is affirmed in relation to a third, unsexed but sexual force which multiplies the possibilities for sexual pleasure beyond heterosexual coupling. Proust's emphasis on sexed ``parts'' rather than sexed morphologies is generative of maximally diverse combinations, all of which are equally natural and equally enhanced through artifice.

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.

Emmanuel Levinas compares ethical responsibility to a maternal body who bears the Other in the same without assimilation. In explicating this trope, he refers to a biblical passage in which Moses is like a "wet nurse" bearing Others whom he has "neither conceived nor given birth to" (Num. 11:12). A close reading of this passage raises questions about ethics, maternity, and sexual difference, for both the concept of ethical substitution and the material practice of mothering.

Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical responsibility. This work takes shape against a backdrop of disturbing trends: The United States incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other country in the world. A disproportionate number of these prisoners are people of color, and, today, a black man has a greater chance of going to

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Transformative Descriptions / Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon -- 1. The Phenomenological Method / Duane H. Davis -- 2. Critical Phenomenology / Lisa Guenther -- 3. Bad Faith / Lewis R. Gordon -- 4. Being and beings: The Ontological/Ontic Distinction / John D. Caputo -- 5. Being-in-Itself, Being-for-Itself, and Being-for-Others / Kris Sealey -- 6. Being-toward-Death / Mark Ralkowski -- 7. Borderlands and Border Crossing / Natalie Cisneros -- 8. Collective Continuance / Kyle Whyte -- 9. Compulsory Able-Bodiedness / Robert McRuer -- 10. Confiscated Bodies / George Yancy -- 11. Controlling Images / Patricia Hill Collins -- 12. Corporeal Generosity / Rosalyn Diprose -- 13. Decolonial Imaginary / Eduardo Mendieta -- 14. Durée / Alia Al-Saji -- 15. Epistemological Ignorance / Charles W. Mills -- 16. Eros / Tamsin Kimoto and Cynthia Willett -- 17. The Eternal Feminine / Debra Bergoffen -- 18. Ethical Freedom / Shannon M. Mussett -- 19. The Face / Diane Perpich -- 20. The Flesh of the World / Donald A. Landes -- 21. Geomateriality / Ted Toadvine -- 22. The Habit Body / Helen A. Fielding -- 23. Heteronormativity / Megan Burke -- 24. Hometactics / Mariana Ortega -- 25. Horizons / David Morris -- 26. Imaginaries / Moira Gatens -- 27. Immanence and Transcendence / Shiloh Whitney -- 28. Intercorporeality / Scott Marratto -- 29. The Körper/Leib Distinction / Jenny Slatman -- 30. The Look / William McBride -- 31. Mestiza Consciousness / Elena Ruíz -- 32. Misfitting / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- 33. Model Minority / Emily S. Lee -- 34. The Natural Attitude / Lanei M. Rodemeyer -- 35. The Normate / Joel Michael Reynolds -- 36. Ontological Expansiveness / Shannon Sullivan -- 37. Operative Intentionality / Jennifer McWeeny -- 38. Perceptual Faith / Jack Reynolds.

This book explains the importance of embodiment in understanding the function of race. With chapters by expert contributors and coverage of the most recent thinking in philosophy of race, the book is ideal for upper-level students in Phenomenology, Philosophy of Race and Critical Race Theory.