Dimensions
143 x 224 x 21mm
All human beings begin life by being born, and all human beings die. In these two ways we are finite: our lives are not endless, but they begin and they come to an end. Historically, however, philosophers have concentrated attention on only one of these two finitudes--our mortality. Comparatively little has been said about being born and how that shapes our existence. This book sets out to overcome this neglect of birth and to provide a philosophical account of
how being born shapes the whole of our condition as human beings. By taking birth into account, this book offers an original perspective on human existence--a natal existentialism--which bears on many
debates in feminist and continental philosophy and around death and the meaning of life.
