UID:
almahu_9949386350202882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000073669
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1000073661
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9780367815707
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0367815702
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9781000073645
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1000073645
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9781000073652
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1000073653
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
Content:
"The essays in this book analyze the concept of the "inhuman gaze", as conceptualized by Merleau-Ponty, from a variety of different philosophical and theoretical perspectives, including phenomenology, philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, and psychopathology. The underlying motivation of the contributions is to question perceptions of "the human", and how this designation can be used to underwrite concepts of exclusion, denigration, dehumanization and demonization. The variety of perspectives featured across the volume speak to relevance of the phenomenological and psychological character of perceiving others as human or inhuman, in tandem with its expression in various social phenomena. The essays respond to pressing questions related to this phenomenon, including but not limited to: 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? Perception and the Inhuman Gaze will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, and social cognition"--
Content:
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? Perception and the Inhuman Gaze will interest scholars and advanced students working in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and social cognition.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Images, Figures, and Tables -- Introduction -- Part I The Gaze in Classical Phenomenology: Perspectives on Objectification -- 1 Defending the Objective Gaze as a Self-transcending Capacity of Human Subjects -- 2 Two Orders of Bodily Objectification: The Look and the Touch -- 3 On Eliminativism's Transient Gaze -- 4 Not Wholly Human: Reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty with Jacques Lacan -- 5 Disclosure and the Gendered Gaze in Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics -- Part II Vision, Perception and Gazes
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6 Inside the Gaze -- 7 Perception and its Objects -- 8 Technological Gaze: Understanding How Technologies Transform Perception -- 9 The Inhuman Gaze and Perceptual Gestalts: The Making and Unmaking of Others and Worlds -- Part III Psychiatry, Psychopathology, and Inhuman Gazes -- 10 Values and Values-based Practice in Psychopathology: Combining Analytic and Phenomenological Approaches -- 11 The Inhuman and Human Gaze in Psychiatry, Psychopathology, and Schizophrenia -- 12 Overcoming the Gaze: Psychopathology, Affect, and Narrative
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13 From Excess to Exhaustion: The Rise of Burnout in a Post-modern Achievement Society -- 14 Phenomenology of Blackout Rage: The Inhibition of Episodic Memory in Extreme Berserker Episodes -- Part IV Beyond the Human: Divine, Post-human, and Animal Gazes -- 15 Wondering at the Inhuman Gaze -- 16 What Counts as Human/Inhuman Right Now? -- 17 Beyond Human and Animal: Metamorphosis in Merleau-Ponty -- Part V Sociality and the Boundaries of the Human -- 18 Voice and Gaze Considered Together in 'Languaging' -- 19 Disability and the Inhuman -- 20 Social Invisibility and Emotional Blindness
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21 What Are You Looking At? Dissonance as a Window Into the Autonomy of Participatory Sense-Making Frames -- List of Contributors -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367405628
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367405625
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367815707
