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? -- ---- 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 **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html