POLI SCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Scapegoating, Body Politic
3 Nov 2016
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My aim here is to adopt a nonideal contract as a rhetorical trope and theoretical method for understanding the inner logic of racial domination and how it structures the polities of the west and elsewhere. The ideal social contract has been a central concept of western political for understanding and evaluating the social world. Correspondingly, the lack of appropriate concepts can hinder learning, interfere with memory, block inferences, obstruct explanation, and perpetuate problems. (mills, racial contract, 6-7) Using contract build on the social contract, something the western world recognizes, to understand the language of the point/meaning. In the disincarnate political theory of the orthodox social contract, the body vanishes, becomes theoretically unimportant, just as the physical space inhabited by that body is ostensibly theoretically unimportant. But this disappearing act is just as much an illusion in the former as in the latter case.
