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Perception and the Inhuman Gaze - Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences (Paperback)
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Perception and the Inhuman Gaze - Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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The diverse essays in this volume speak to the relevance of
phenomenological and psychological questioning regarding
perceptions of the human. This designation, human, can be used
beyond the mere identification of a species to underwrite
exclusion, denigration, dehumanization and demonization, and to set
up a pervasive opposition in Othering all deemed inhuman, nonhuman,
or posthuman. As alerted to by Merleau-Ponty, one crucial key for a
deeper understanding of these issues is consideration of the nature
and scope of perception. Perception defines the world of the
perceiver, and perceptual capacities are constituted in engagement
with the world - there is co-determination. Moreover, the distinct
phenomenology of perception in the spectatorial mode in contrast to
the reciprocal mode, deepens the intersubjective and ethical
dimensions of such investigations. Questions motivating the essays
include: Can objectification and an inhuman gaze serve positive
ends? If so, under what constraints and conditions? How is an
inhuman gaze achieved and at what cost? How might the emerging
insights of the role of perception into our interdependencies and
essential sociality from various domains challenge not only
theoretical frameworks, but also the practices and institutions of
science, medicine, psychiatry and justice? What can we learn from
atypical social cognition, psychopathology and animal cognition?
Could distortions within the gazer's emotional responsiveness and
habituated aspects of social interaction play a role in the
emergence of an inhuman gaze? Perception and the Inhuman Gaze will
interest scholars and advanced students working in phenomenology,
philosophy of mind, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and social
cognition.
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