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Perception and the Inhuman Gaze : Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences

Year of publication

2020

Authors

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

Abstract

The diverse essays in this volume speak to the relevance of phenomenological and psychological questioning regarding perceptions of the human. This designation, human, can be used beyond the mere identification of a species to underwrite exclusion, denigration, dehumanization and demonization, and to set up a pervasive opposition in Othering all deemed inhuman, nonhuman, or posthuman. As alerted to by Merleau-Ponty, one crucial key for a deeper understanding of these issues is consideration of the nature and scope of perception. Perception defines the world of the perceiver, and perceptual capacities are constituted in engagement with the world – there is co-determination. Moreover, the distinct phenomenology of perception in the spectatorial mode in contrast to the reciprocal mode, deepens the intersubjective and ethical dimensions of such investigations. Questions motivating the essays include: Can objectification and an inhuman gaze serve positive ends? If so, under what constraints and conditions? How is an inhuman gaze achieved and at what cost? How might the emerging insights of the role of perception into our interdependencies and essential sociality from various domains challenge not only theoretical frameworks, but also the practices and institutions of science, medicine, psychiatry and justice? What can we learn from atypical social cognition, psychopathology and animal cognition? Could distortions within the gazer’s emotional responsiveness and habituated aspects of social interaction play a role in the emergence of an inhuman gaze?
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Organizations and authors

Publication type

Publication format

Editorial work

Parent publication type

Compilation

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

C2 Edited book, conference proceedings or special issue of a journal

Publication channel information

Publisher

Routledge

​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

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Publication country

United States

Internationality of the publisher

International

Language

English

International co-publication

Yes

Co-publication with a company

No

DOI

10.4324/9780367815707

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

Yes