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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Natality

"… And so maybe the twenty-first century is a time to think more carefully and deeply about birth, about what it has been throughout history, is today, and could be in our future. Maybe it is time for all people, and not just new mothers, to wrestle with human natality—to think anew about how birth has shaped our lives and societies, and how it has altered the course of our planet's history. Can our reckoning with birth's ubiquity and magnitude, its private and public significance, re-attune us not only to its difficulties but also to what Hannah Arendt called a "shocked wonder at the miracle of Being"? Can it remind us of our innate capacity to always begin again?"

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/natality-mortality-banks-arendt-children-india-feminism

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