Incarnated historicity: an essay on Archeology and Imagination

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378637880

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Embodiment, Alienation, Historicity, Knowledge

Abstract

In this essay, we will first focus on how important the issue of the body and the embodiment is for Foucault’s take on subjectivity and truth, pointing at the situatedness of knowledge as an argument about the alienating aspects of embodiment. Further, we will contrast Foucault’s bodily intentionality, which shapes the possibilities of a narration of self, with Walter Benjamin’s notion of “arcades” and the placement of subjectivity as a realm of a narration for the self, which, on its turn, frees subjectivity from the materiality of embodiment. Finally, we frame the issue of narration within an “aesthetics of embodiment”, pointing the ways in which eroticism and sexuality may allow an overcoming of embodied alienation within an open interpretation of Foucault’s archeological method.

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Fabrício Pontin, Universidade La Salle, Canos, RS

Professor do PPG em Educação da Universidade La Salle, Professor dos Bacharelados em Direito e Relações Internacionais da mesma instituição. Doutor em Filosofia (SIUC), Mestre em Filosofia (PUCRS), Bacharel em Direito (PUCRS).

Tatiana Vargas Maia, Universidade La Salle, Canos, RS

Professora do PPG em Memória Social e Bens Culturais da Universidade La Salle, Coordenadora e Professora do Bacharelado em Relações Internacionais e do Bacharelado e da Licenciatura em História da mesma instituição. Doutora em Ciência Política (SIUC), Mestre em Relações Internacionais (UFRGS), Bacharel em História (UFRGS), Bacharel em Ciências Sociais (PUCRS).

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Published

2019-04-30

How to Cite

Pontin, F., & Maia, T. V. (2019). Incarnated historicity: an essay on Archeology and Imagination. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 10(1), 62–72. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378637880

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019): Dossier Philosophies of the body + Schopenhauerian Studies

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Philosophies of the body

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