The Politics of Bodies: Philosophical Emancipation With and Beyond Rancière

282 Pages·2020·3.126 MB·English

by  Laura Quintana

The Politics of Bodies
Reinventing Critical Theory
Series Editors: Gabriel Rockhill, Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Villanova University
Jennifer Ponce de León, Assistant Professor of English,
University of Pennsylvania
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The Politics of Bodies: Philosophical Emancipation with and beyond
Rancière
Laura Quintana—Translated by Rosario Casas

The Politics of Bodies
Philosophical Emancipation
with and beyond Rancière
Laura Quintana
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To Pablo and Feliza, for the inexhaustible desire

Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
PART I: RETHINKING THE EMANCIPATION OF
BODIES TODAY 21
1. Mapping the Practices of Emancipation 23
1.1. A Cartography of Possibilities 24
1.2. Intellectual Emancipation and Political Subjectivization/
Dissensus and Disagreement 30
1.2.1. Everyday Displacements in the Web of Experience 31
1.2.2. Scenes of Disagreement 34
1.2.3. Different Strategies and Passages—Singularity of
the Approach 36
2. Intellectual Emancipation as the Torsion of a Body 45
2.1. Torsions of Bodies 48
2.1.1. The Separation of Gaze and Hands 48
2.1.2. The Interstice and the Materiality of Words 54
2.1.3. The Languages of Bodies 60
2.1.4. The Potency of Bodies 63
2.2. Torsion as Conversion of a Body 65
2.2.1. An Economy of Freedom 66
2.2.2. Out of Place 69
2.3. Effects 72
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