Rewriting the flesh of the world for the new human: Merleau‐Ponty, Fanon, and Wynter on the ethics of futurity.
This article reads Maurice Merleau‐Ponty's ontology of the "flesh of the world" alongside the ontology that seems to undergird Frantz Fanon's sociodiagnostics as well as his theory of sociogeny. It argues that reading Fanonian sociogeny in terms of the ambiguity and intercorporeality of the flesh of...
| Publicado en: | Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 65 - 79 |
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