[lit-ideas] Bodies That Matter

  • From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:32:35 EDT

In a message dated 4/21/2009 2:16:39 A.M.  Eastern Daylight Time, 
phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx writes:
"And that female body at  the center of it all ... what's her story?"

Wouldn't it be some 'ist' or  'ism' to consider only the body and not
the person? --

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No.  The Whole Point is to use _body_. It's a queer-theory thing, 
introduced by  Butler and Sedgwick. It springs from Merleau-Ponty. For most 
classical-educated  philosophers, 'person' is too Catholic to swallow. Body 
(corpus) 
is just  fine.

And no, it would not be _monism_ because that would presuppose that  
dualism is fine, which is not. Dualism is _absurd_.

Oddly, in Spanish,  mono means 'monkey'. So monism is the study of apes. In 
the Recoleta fashionable  district where I live in Buenos Aires, ladies of 
a certain age of the high class  would exchange things like:

She _is_  mona.
And that hat, the 'mas mono' thing I've ever  said.

For some reason, 'mono' (originally 'monkey') now means 'cute'.  

Cheers,

JLS

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