Adriana Cavarero

Adriana Cavarero (born 1947) is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona.

• "Once I stop asking, "Who are you?" and once I assume I know you, I am violent toward you."
  • On the narratable self and relationality

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• "If the human body appears in its nakedness, stripped of all cover, it becomes a place where the whole species is revealed in its elemental condition. A hairless body, a naked body, and what is more, a body of a newborn, are all, in this way, reduced to a state of extreme vulnerability and hence to the sheer condition of defenselessness."

On the philosophy of vocal expression

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• "A voice signifies a living person with a unique sound the human voice is revealing of the speaker, regardless of what is said."*