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 format
Article
Parent publication type
Compilation
Article type
Other article
Audience
ScientificPeer-reviewed
Peer-ReviewedMINEDU's publication type classification code
A3 Book section, Chapters in research booksPublication channel information
Parent publication name
Perception and the Inhuman Gaze : Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences
Parent publication editors
Daly, Anya; Cummins, Fred; Jardine, James; Moran, Dermot
Publisher
Pages
44-62
ISBN
Publication forum
Publication forum level
3
Open access
Open access in the publisher’s service
No
Self-archived
No
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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
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Yes