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Two Orders of Bodily Objectification : The Look and the Touch

Year of publication

2020

Authors

Heinämaa, Sara

Abstract

Several discussions of the self-other relation in contemporary phenomenology draw from Sartre’s concept of the look and his related analysis of shame. Sartre’s early account informs broad topical areas, including investigations of gender and race, social and self-conscious emotions, the origins of norms and normativity, and the conditions of alienation and reification. This chapter clarifies the type of bodily objectification effected by the Sartrean look. It parallels Sartre’s account of objectification to Edmund Husserl’s account and its later reformulations by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The comparison highlights the fact that bodily objectification is discussed in two different senses in contemporary phenomenology. The Sartrean and Husserlian accounts are shown to differ in three crucial respects: first, with respect to the type of “object” that is at issue; second, with respect to the axiological dimensions of the state of being bodily objectified; and third with respect to the conditions under which bodily objectification happens or is performed.
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Publication type

Publication format

Article

Parent publication type

Compilation

Article type

Other article

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

A3 Book section, Chapters in research books

Publication channel information

Parent publication editors

Daly, Anya; Cummins, Fred; Jardine, James; Moran, Dermot

Publisher

Routledge

Pages

44-62

​Publication forum

5876

​Publication forum level

3

Open access

Open access in the publisher’s service

No

Self-archived

No

Other information

Fields of science

Philosophy

Keywords

[object Object],[object Object]

Publication country

United States

Internationality of the publisher

International

Language

English

International co-publication

No

Co-publication with a company

No

DOI

10.4324/9780367815707-4

The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection

Yes