Mass of Bodies, Body as a Mass: The Other of the Other in Jean-Luc Nancy
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341437" target="_blank" >10.1163/15691640-12341437</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Mass of Bodies, Body as a Mass: The Other of the Other in Jean-Luc Nancy
Original language description
This paper aims to explore and expand Jean-Luc Nancy's notion of the body as a mass as he drafted it in his "On the Soul" lecture. He conceptualizes the soul as the (how- ever minimal) reflection of the fact that we have (or we are) a body, thus the concep- tion of the body as a mass may offer possibilities to think the body outside or prior to this reflection. In the article, I expand on three types of bodies. The first of these possibilities is an abstracted body Nancy ascribed to St. Augustine, a body which has been criticized by feminist scholars like Judith Butler. The second one is a hypothetical pre-body proposed by the object-oriented philosopher Graham Harman that may have existed before the actual body emerges. The last one is the disintegrated rotting body in two different contexts: European baroque imagery and asubha kammaṭṭhāna, a Thai meditational practice. All three types of bodies-as-a-mass are legitimate conceptualizations of what Nancy indicates. However, the mass quality is the very nonconceptuality, which is therefore the ultimate outcome that I had to reach.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Research in Phenomenology
ISSN
0085-5553
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
17-30
UT code for WoS article
000533613000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85086374122