Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters

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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. Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction: Reconsidering the Phenomenology of Social Encounters......Page 10 Notes......Page 25 References......Page 26 Part I: Embodied Politics: Encountering Race and Violence......Page 28 Introduction......Page 30 Selfhood and Sociality Based on the Corporeal Sharing of Meaning......Page 34 Politics Providing the Conditions for the Possibility of Sharing Meaning......Page 37 Political Violence and Its (Direct and Indirect) Impact on Bodies......Page 39 Conclusion: Bodies in Revolt Between Isolation and Homogenization......Page 46 Notes......Page 48 References......Page 52 2 A Critical Phenomenology of Solidarity and Resistance in the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strikes......Page 56 Extreme Isolation and Gang Validation at Pelican Bay State Prison......Page 59 Critical Phenomenology as a Practice of Liberation......Page 63 Resistance and Solidarity in the Pelican Bay Shu......Page 68 Notes......Page 74 References......Page 79 3 Sedimented Attitudes and Existential Responsibilities......Page 84 Questioning White Ignorance......Page 85 Beauvoir and Merleau-ponty on Privilege, Passivity, and Responsibility......Page 94 Notes......Page 104 References......Page 109 4 Racializing Perception and the Phenomenology of Invisibility......Page 112 The Dialectics of Invisibility and the Lived Experience of Race......Page 115 Re-visioning Ethical Forms of Seeing: Perception Contra Sartre......Page 119 Rupturing Racialized Patterns of Perception......Page 122 The Phenomenology of Invisibility: Honneth’s Account of Recognition and Perception......Page 125 Notes......Page 130 References......Page 136 Part II: Relationality, Ethics, and the Other......Page 140 Interaction......Page 142 Recognition......Page 146 Relational Autonomy......Page 154 Notes......Page 160 References......Page 166 6 The Weight of Others: Social Encounters and an Ethics of Reading......Page 170 “Others” in the Preface to Phenomenology of Perception: From Epistemology to Ontology......Page 173 Others and Language in Phenomenology of Perception......Page 179 Traces of Others in Phenomenology of Perception......Page 182 Notes......Page 187 References......Page 191 7 Linguistic Encounters: The Performativity of Active Listening......Page 194 Language and Social Power......Page 195 The Hearer’s Uptake as a Felicity Condition for Speech-acts......Page 202 Performativity of Active Listening......Page 209 Notes......Page 213 References......Page 216 8 Wonder as the Primary Passion: A Phenomenological Perspective on Irigaray’s Ethics of Difference......Page 218 The Mind–body Union......Page 219 Wonder as a Passion of the Soul......Page 222 Wonder as Task......Page 224 Conclusion: An Ethics of Reading and Writing?......Page 229 Notes......Page 230 References......Page 240 9 Merleau-Ponty on Understanding Other Others......Page 246 The Problem of Others: First Epistemological Problem......Page 248 The Problem of Others: Second Epistemological Problem......Page 251 The Problem of Others: The Conceptual Problem......Page 252 The Problem(s) of Other Others......Page 254 Conclusion......Page 263 Notes......Page 264 References......Page 274 Part III: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intercorporeality......Page 276 The Breakthrough Discovery of Embodiment in Phenomenology......Page 278 Embodied Being-in-the-world as an Overcoming of Cartesian Dualism......Page 279 The Key Phenomenological Distinction: Leib Versus Körper......Page 285 Bodily Mineness: The Uniquely Personal “Possession” of My Body......Page 288 The Intertwining of the Senses: Merleau-ponty’s “Chiasm”......Page 290 The Lived Body as Experienced in Fantasy, Dream, and Altered States......Page 293 Intersubjectivity, Intercorporeality, Being-with-one-another (Miteinandersein)......Page 295 Notes......Page 298 References......Page 309 11 Phenomenology and Intercorporeality in the Case of Commercial Surrogacy......Page 320 The Metaphors and Practices of Surrogacy......Page 324 The Phenomenology of Intercorporeality and the Maternal–fetal Relation......Page 329 Conclusion......Page 335 Notes......Page 337 References......Page 342 Introduction......Page 346 Sartre and the Body......Page 350 The Body-For-Others......Page 353 The Case of “Vincent”......Page 354 The Look of the Other......Page 356 Agoraphobia and the Look......Page 358 Notes......Page 362 References......Page 365 Introduction......Page 368 Intercorporeal Capabilities......Page 369 Constitutive Intercorporeality......Page 372 Intercorporeality as a Relation of Expression......Page 377 Situated Expression......Page 380 Conclusion......Page 384 Notes......Page 386 References......Page 391 Notes on Contributors......Page 396 Index......Page 402