Founding Foreclosures: Violence and Rhetorical Ownership in Philosophical Discourse on the Body

Drawing inspiration from Susan Sontag’s notion of ‘rhetorical ownership’—applied not only to illness but also to the body more generally—this essay argues that philosophy, like medicine, has privileged a metaphorics of war and violence in its own discourses on embodiment. Drawing inspiration from Ba...

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Main Author: Murphy, Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2016]
In: Sophia
Year: 2016, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-14
RelBib Classification:NBE Anthropology
NCA Ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Sedgwick
B Materiality
B Violence
B Sontag
B Embodiment
B Metaphor
B Philosophy
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