Publication: La «pierre noire» et la «bulle de savon». Réflexions sur le corps au XXIe siècle
Authors
Braunstein, Jean François
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Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones
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http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/daimon/271271
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Abstract
Michel Foucault ha transformado
nuestra visión del cuerpo. Así como Judith Butler,
muchos han querido hallar en él la idea de que
“los cuerpos son construidos”. La utopía queer o
la extraña enfermedad mental de la amputoma-
nía dan cuenta de dicha desmaterialización del
cuerpo. Foucault soñaba efectivamente con un
cuerpo “pompa de jabón”. Esta visión “neo-dua-
lista”, muy bien descrita por Ian Hacking, puede
llevar hasta un gnosticismo despectivo por la
“carne” insignificante que es nuestro cuerpo. Pero
para Foucault, en El nacimiento de la clínica, el
cuerpo es también una “piedra negra”, opaca e
impenetrable. Las reflexiones de Canguilhem o la
pintura de Bacon nos permiten superar manifies-
tamente la brutal oposición entre un “cuerpo espi-
ritual”, enteramente construido”, y un “cuerpo
material”, simplemente dado.
Michel Foucault transformed our vision of the body. Many, such as Judith Butler, have been willing to find in Foucault the idea according to which “bodies are constructed”. Such a dematerialization of the body finds an echo in the queer utopia or that puzzling men- tal disorder known as Apotemnophilia. Foucault indeed dreamt of a body conceived as a “soap bubble”. That “neo-dualistic” vision, well-des- cribed by Ian Hacking, might even result in a Gnosticism that despises the meaningless “meat” our body is made of. But the body also represents for Foucault, in The Birth of the Clinic, a “black stone”, opaque and impenetrable. Canguilhem’s ideas, or Bacon’s paintings, surely allow one to go beyond the crude opposition drawn between a “spiritual body”, entirely made up, and a “mate- rial body”, merely given.
Michel Foucault transformed our vision of the body. Many, such as Judith Butler, have been willing to find in Foucault the idea according to which “bodies are constructed”. Such a dematerialization of the body finds an echo in the queer utopia or that puzzling men- tal disorder known as Apotemnophilia. Foucault indeed dreamt of a body conceived as a “soap bubble”. That “neo-dualistic” vision, well-des- cribed by Ian Hacking, might even result in a Gnosticism that despises the meaningless “meat” our body is made of. But the body also represents for Foucault, in The Birth of the Clinic, a “black stone”, opaque and impenetrable. Canguilhem’s ideas, or Bacon’s paintings, surely allow one to go beyond the crude opposition drawn between a “spiritual body”, entirely made up, and a “mate- rial body”, merely given.
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Citation
Daimon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, Suplemento 5, 2016, pp. 11-28
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