Luna Dolezal & Danielle Petherbridge 
Body/Self/Other 
The Phenomenology of Social Encounters

Body/Self/Other brings together a variety of phenomenological perspectives to examine the complexity of social encounters across a range of social, political, and ethical issues. It investigates the materiality of social encounters and the habitual attitudes that structure lived experience. In particular, the contributors examine how constructions of race, gender, sexuality, criminality, and medicalized forms of subjectivity affect perception and social interaction. Grounded in practical, everyday experiences, this book provides a theoretical framework that considers the extent to which fundamental ethical obligations arise from the fact of individuals’ intercorporeality and sociality.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reconsidering the Phenomenology of Social Encounters


Luna Dolezal and
Danielle Petherbridge




Part I. Embodied Politics: Encountering Race and Violence


1. The Body and Political Violence: Between Isolation and Homogenization


Rosalyn Diprose



2. A Critical Phenomenology of Solidarity and Resistance in the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strikes


Lisa Guenther



3. Sedimented Attitudes and Existential Responsibilities


Gail Weiss



4. Racializing Perception and the Phenomenology of Invisibility


Danielle Petherbridge




Part II. Relationality, Ethics, and The Other



5. Social Interaction, Autonomy, and Recognition


Shaun Gallagher



6. The Weight of Others: Social Encounters and an Ethics of Reading


Donald A. Landes



7. Linguistic Encounters: The Performativity of Active Listening


Beata Stawarska



8. Wonder as the Primary Passion: A Phenomenological Perspective on Irigaray’s Ethics of Difference


Sara Heinamaa



9. Merleau-Ponty on Understanding
Other Others


Katherine J. Morris




Part III. Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intercorporeality



10. Lived Body, Intersubjectivity, and Intercorporeality: The Body in Phenomenology


Dermot Moran



11. Phenomenology and Intercorporeality in the Case of Commercial Surrogacy


Luna Dolezal



12. Agoraphobia, Sartre, and the Spatiality of the Look


Dylan Trigg



13. Intercorporeal Expression and the Subjectivity of Dementia


Lisa Folkmarson Kall



Notes on Contributors

Index

About the author

Luna Dolezal is Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, and author of
The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body.
Danielle Petherbridge is Assistant Professor of Continental Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland, and the author of
The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth.