Open AccessWar-like Violence: Violating the Ontological Contract
Author(s) -
Debra Bergoffen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
labyrinth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2410-4817
pISSN - 1561-8927
DOI - 10.25180/lj.v23i2.268
Subject(s) - shame , humiliation , disgust , ontological security , intersubjectivity , schema (genetic algorithms) , social psychology , affect (linguistics) , ontology , embodied cognition , psychology , perception , objectification , sociology , criminology , epistemology , philosophy , communication , feeling , anger , machine learning , computer science , neuroscience
Examining the continuities and differences between war and war-like violence, focusing on the war like violence of racism and rape through the lens of Sartre’s ontology of “The Look”, Merleau-Ponty’s concept of a body schema, and Beauvoir’s analysis of women as “the sex”, I argue that war-like violence deploys the affect perceptions of shame, degrada-tion, humiliation and disgust to violate the ontological contract of intersubjectivity and mutual vulnerability.