THEA 3235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wisdom, Totalitarianism, Homo Sapiens
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Connecting the body to a method and as a way of looking at human relations. Otherness: when we see another person, we immediately connect with them through our body. Death: limitations to the body, the body will eventually decay and die. Fragility: we are very fragile, if a young person dies at in an accident. Script: scripted ways of understanding the world. Performances as are reflexive: the body as a site for reflexivity, we are constantly exploring our presence in society, human beings are always performing and learning. Human beings are naturally a performing species. Victor turner: anthropologist- rather than homosapiens, we are also homoperformances. Bodily expressions have been subordinated to written expressions. Writing valued as a higher realm of knowledge. Scholars believe that this disembodied views as the norm. Platonic-cartesian notion of person" (barish 1981, best 1978, farn ) This view permeates into almost everything we do in society and every relation that we have throughout history.
