The Naked Body as a Political Weapon.: An Analysis from the Thought of Merleau-Ponty (and Michel Henry)

dc.creatorHonorato, Diego
dc.creatorCaviedes, Gabriela
dc.creatorGarcía-Huidobro, Joaquín
dc.date2021
dc.date.accessioned05-01-2026 18:13
dc.date.available05-01-2026 18:13
dc.description<p>In recent years, the use of nudity in public spaces has frequently become used to promote or reject certain policies, in such a way that the movements that turn to what has been called «political porn» are now numerous. The central argument of the article uses Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to show how the political exposition of the body cancels the possibility of being recognized for what one is and shifts the interlocutors (exhibitionist-spectator) towards a negative dialectic of mutual ignorance. Finally, it is shown why, in a democratic and plural society, the political display of the naked body itself tends, by its own reifying nature, to undermine the conditions of the rational exercise of public deliberation.</p>eng
dc.identifierhttps://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/39b72edc-8072-4f3f-ab69-639c2e35752f
dc.languagespa
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.sourcevol.12 (2021) nr.26 p.64-85
dc.subjectMerleau-Ponty
dc.subjectcorporal exhibition
dc.subjectmaster-slave dialectic
dc.subjectpolitical deliberation
dc.subjectpolitical nude
dc.titleThe Naked Body as a Political Weapon.: An Analysis from the Thought of Merleau-Ponty (and Michel Henry)spa
dc.titleThe Naked Body as a Political Weapon. An Analysis from the Thought of Merleau-Ponty (and Michel Henry)eng
dc.titleEl cuerpo desnudo como arma política. : Un análisis desde el pensamiento de Merleau-Ponty (y Michel Henry)spa
dc.typeArticleeng
dc.typeArtículospa
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