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(2018) Transrational resonances, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
On the flesh of violence
the (phenomenological) dilemma in researching violence and its transrational transformation
Rebecca Gulowski
pp. 167-191
In this chapter, the concept of the paradoxical open gestalt of violence is unfolded by describing an alternative approach to research on violence, which combines the phenomenological ontology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, particularly his notion of the term flesh with the transrational ontology elaborated by Wolfgang Dietrich. The aim is to overcome a Marxist view of emancipatory politics that focuses on the economic base of society and also a postmodern perspective referring to Wittgenstein and understanding the limits of language as the limits of the world. By shifting the locus of authority into the inner self, this contribution is the attempt to integrate an emancipatory aspect into violence research and empower the individual who is the experiencer of violence.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70616-0_9
Full citation:
Gulowski, R. (2018)., On the flesh of violence: the (phenomenological) dilemma in researching violence and its transrational transformation, in D. Ingruber, N. Koppensteiner & J. Echavarría Alvarez (eds.), Transrational resonances, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-191.
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