Founding Foreclosures: Violence and Rhetorical Ownership in Philosophical Discourse on the Body
Drawing inspiration from Susan Sontags notion of rhetorical ownershipapplied not only to illness but also to the body more generallythis essay argues that philosophy, like medicine, has privileged a metaphorics of war and violence in its own discourses on embodiment. Drawing inspiration from Ba...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
[2016]
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Sophia
Year: 2016, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-14 |
| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Sedgwick
B Materiality B Violence B Sontag B Embodiment B Metaphor B Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Drawing inspiration from Susan Sontags notion of rhetorical ownershipapplied not only to illness but also to the body more generallythis essay argues that philosophy, like medicine, has privileged a metaphorics of war and violence in its own discourses on embodiment. Drawing inspiration from Barbara Christians seminal essay The Race for Theory, as well as literary theorist Eve Sedgwicks account of what she calls paranoid forms of inquiry in her book Touching Feeling, this essay explores the status of violence as an especially resonant trope in discourses on materiality. One worry is that the omnipresence of violent metaphors in contemporary philosophy of the body may be narrowing the space for the elaboration of nonviolent understanding of corporeality that would imagine the body otherwise than as a battlefield or a site of violence. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-016-0521-5 |