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Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights. Body/Self/Other brings together a variety of phenomenological perspectives to examine the complexity of social encounters across a range of social, political, and ethical issues. It investigates the materiality of social encounters and the habitual attitudes that structure lived experience. In particular, the contributors examine how constructions of race, gender, sexuality, criminality, and medicalized forms of subjectivity affect perception and social interaction. Grounded in practical, everyday experiences, this book provides a theoretical framework that considers the extent to which fundamental ethical obligations arise from the fact of individuals' intercorporeality and sociality.

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Author:   Luna Dolezal ,  Danielle Petherbridge
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9781438466200

ISBN 10:   143846620
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   02 July 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Reconsidering the Phenomenology of Social Encounters Luna Dolezal and Danielle Petherbridge Part I. Embodied Politics: Encountering Race and Violence 1. The Body and Political Violence: Between Isolation and Homogenization Rosalyn Diprose 2. A Critical Phenomenology of Solidarity and Resistance in the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strikes Lisa Guenther 3. Sedimented Attitudes and Existential Responsibilities Gail Weiss 4. Racializing Perception and the Phenomenology of Invisibility Danielle Petherbridge Part II. Relationality, Ethics, and The Other 5. Social Interaction, Autonomy, and Recognition Shaun Gallagher 6. The Weight of Others: Social Encounters and an Ethics of Reading Donald A. Landes 7. Linguistic Encounters: The Performativity of Active Listening Beata Stawarska 8. Wonder as the Primary Passion: A Phenomenological Perspective on Irigaray’s Ethics of Difference Sara Heinamaa 9. Merleau-Ponty on Understanding Other Others Katherine J. Morris Part III. Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intercorporeality 10. Lived Body, Intersubjectivity, and Intercorporeality: The Body in Phenomenology Dermot Moran 11. Phenomenology and Intercorporeality in the Case of Commercial Surrogacy Luna Dolezal 12. Agoraphobia, Sartre, and the Spatiality of the Look Dylan Trigg 13. Intercorporeal Expression and the Subjectivity of Dementia Lisa Folkmarson Kall Notes on Contributors Index

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By connecting phenomenology to social theory and everyday situations, this volume will appeal to those looking to understand better the complex, confusing, and often conflicting distinctions socially operative among `bodies' of all kinds, `selves' of multiple definitions, and `others' taken in different ways. As such, it makes an accessible and insightful contribution to a wide range of readers, such as critical race, decolonial, and legal theorists. - Hypatia

Body/Self/Other brings together a variety of phenomenological perspectives to examine the complexity of social encounters across a range of social, political, and ethical issues. It investigates the materiality of social encounters and the habitual attitudes that structure lived experience. In particular, the contributors examine how constructions of race, gender, sexuality, criminality, and medicalized forms of subjectivity affect perception and social interaction. Grounded in practical, everyday experiences, this book provides a theoretical framework that considers the extent to which fundamental ethical obligations arise from the fact of individuals' intercorporeality and sociality.

Author Information

Luna Dolezal is Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, and author of The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body. Danielle Petherbridge is Assistant Professor of Continental Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland, and the author of The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth.

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