"Spanish poet and philosopher Chantal Maillard asks whether a world without violence is possible. Beginning with the tale of Nietzsche’s embrace of the Turin horse, and engaging with thinkers from Confucius to Derrida to Sontag, Maillard reflects on how the concept of the “semblable” (one’s other, neighbor, peer, fellow) justifies defensive foreign and domestic policy as well as state-sanctioned global violence. Can we broaden our “frameworks of belonging” and replace our narrow group and species-centered morals with an ethics of interspecies compassion? And if we could, given that the natural world cannot be sustained without violence, would it be possible to create change without violence?"--Publisher's website (viewed 2021 February 3).
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The semblable
2020, Ugly Duckling Presse
in English
- First Edition; First Printing.
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Issued as a translation of El semejante, adapted from Es posible un mundo sin violencia? (Madrid : Vaso Roto, 2018).
"Edition of 1000 copies. Series design by chuck kuan and Sarah Lawson, Typeset by Don't Look Now! Type is New Century Schoolbook. Cover paper and flyleaf from French Paper Co. Printed offset and bound at McNaughton & Gunn. Flyleaf printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse."--Colophon.
Purchase; Ugly Duckling Presse; 2020; Aloian Book Fund.
"Chantal Maillard (born 1951) is a contemporary Spanish poet and philosopher. With a long repertoire behind her, she has received various literary prizes for her poetry. She was awarded the Spanish National Poetry Prize in 2004 for Matar a Platón and the National Critic’s Prize for Spanish Poetry in 2007, for Hilos. Her prose is particularly notable for merging and transgressing literary genres. After receiving her doctorate in Philosophy, she spent long periods traveling and living in India, specializing in Philosophy and Religions from India at the Banaras Hindu University. Until 2000, she was a professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Málaga. She has written articles on philosophy, aesthetics and Eastern Thought for several publications such as ABC and El País. Maillard has also worked on stage and adapted her works to various interdisciplinary projects, in collaboration with visual and stage artists, musicians, and filmmakers from Spain and around the world. Her latest published books are: La compasión difícil (Galaxia Gutenberg), ¿Es posible un mundo sin violencia (Vaso roto), Cual menguando (Tusquets), La razón estética (Galaxia Gutenberg), La mujer de pie (Galaxia Gutenberg), La herida en la lengua (Tusquets), India (Pre-textos), and La baba del caracol (Editorial Vaso Roto)."--Publisher's website (viewed 2021 February 3).
"Whitney DeVos is a writer and translator living in Mexico City, where she is completing a doctoral dissertation on documentary and investigative poetics in the Americas. Her translations have appeared in the Acentos Review and are forthcoming in the Chicago Review."--Publisher's website (viewed 2021 February 3).
As issued, in printed stiff rose paper; in prefab case, 23 cm.
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