Description: The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformationlinked to what the ancients called potentiality. Gentleness is a power.
Brief description: Katherine Payne teaches at the City University of New York.
Review Quotes: "A profound philosopher and psychoanalyst."-- "New York Times"