Foucault, Levinas and the Ethical Embodied Subject

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dc.contributor.advisorZuidervaart, Lamberten_GB
dc.contributor.authorLok, Wing-Kai
dc.contributor.departmentInstitute for Christian Studiesen_GB
dc.contributor.otherGoris, W.en_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T18:05:59Z
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dc.date.issued2011-07-05
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation attempts to interrogate whether the postmodern anti-essentialist approach to the body can truly recognize the ethical value of the body. For the postmodernists, the value of the human body has long been repressed by Cartesian rationalism and dualism that privileges the mind over the body. Dualism is a form of reductionism that reduces either the mind to the body or the body to the mind. It not only fails to recognize an interaction between mind and body, but also privileges one side at the expense of the other. For instance, rationalism is a dualist reductionism since it always explains the body and matter in terms of mind or reason. Thus, dualism not only refers to a split or separation between mind and body, but also refers to a reductive relation between mind and body.
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dc.subjectFoucault, Michel, 1926-1984en_GB
dc.subjectLevinas, Emmanuelen_GB
dc.subjectEthicsen_GB
dc.subjectOther (Philosophy)en_GB
dc.subjectSubject (Philosophy)en_GB
dc.subjectMind and bodyen_GB
dc.subject.lcshFoucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Ethicsen_GB
dc.subject.lcshLevinas, Emmanuel--Ethicsen_GB
dc.subject.lcshOther (Philosophy)en_GB
dc.subject.lcshSubject (Philosophy)en_GB
dc.subject.lcshMind and bodyen_GB
dc.titleFoucault, Levinas and the Ethical Embodied Subjecten
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.degreetitleConjoint Ph.D. by the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto and the VU University Amsterdamen
html.description.abstractThis dissertation attempts to interrogate whether the postmodern anti-essentialist approach to the body can truly recognize the ethical value of the body. For the postmodernists, the value of the human body has long been repressed by Cartesian rationalism and dualism that privileges the mind over the body. Dualism is a form of reductionism that reduces either the mind to the body or the body to the mind. It not only fails to recognize an interaction between mind and body, but also privileges one side at the expense of the other. For instance, rationalism is a dualist reductionism since it always explains the body and matter in terms of mind or reason. Thus, dualism not only refers to a split or separation between mind and body, but also refers to a reductive relation between mind and body.
refterms.dateFOA2018-03-05T13:01:51Z
thesis.degree.grantorInstitute for Christian Studiesen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en
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