Rousseau and radical democracy
In: Continuum studies in philosophy
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In: Continuum studies in philosophy
In: Qui parle: critical humanities and social sciences, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 345-372
ISSN: 1938-8020
Abstract
This article stages a dialogue between Jean-Luc Nancy's postphenomenology and Sara Ahmed's queer phenomenology to examine the conditions, ethos, and politics of world creation as well as the habits, obstacles, and inequalities that resist it. It argues that Nancy's understanding of sense as the event of the mutual exposure of bodies reveals what exceeds dominant worldviews, how bodies extend the world beyond prevailing spatializations, but that it does not sufficiently examine what prevents us from sensing that event as a call to world creation. Conversely, Ahmed analyzes how the spatial orientation of bodies restricts exposure, causes uneven access to the world, and suppresses Nancean sense. Her account of disorientation illuminates how we could experience the world as ungrounded and susceptible to creation but struggles to explain what would enable the sharing of this event so that it does not reconfirm the dominant orientations of whiteness and heterosexuality. Reframing disorientation in terms of Nancy's relational ontology and its spatial conception of justice rethinks the nonalignment of bodies and spaces as freeing the circulation of sense so that alternative worlds could appear. In this way, disorientation can be read as potentially opening the passage from injustice to justice, from orientation to creation.
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT
ISSN: 1476-9336
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 621-641
ISSN: 1476-9336
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Band 24, Heft 2, S. 238-240
ISSN: 1470-1316
In: Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 15-26
ISSN: 1467-8675
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Band 22, Heft 4, S. 492-494
ISSN: 1470-1316
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Band 21, Heft 2, S. 184-204
ISSN: 1470-1316
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 393-413
ISSN: 1476-9336