Lives taking body
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Body, Creatureliness, Animality, Gaita, CoetzeeAbstract
This is an essay concerning the concepts of ‘body’ or ‘embodiment’ and ‘creatureliness’, inspired by the conceptual and methodological Wittgensteinian approach of the Australian philosopher Raimond Gaita and his reflections about J.M. Coetzee’ literature. My main aim is here to think about an alternative to the so called “animal ethics” from a metaethical perspective by establishing as a basic condition to morality – as structured on the realm of meaning – the concept of the ‘living body’. It is a matter of emphasizing the political bias of body and of language, by examining the meanings of our relations to human and non-human creatureliness in view of a more livable world for us and for them.
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