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- W42735275 abstract "In contrast to most Enlightenment thinkers who sought to sanitize the realm of politics by ensuring that only the “highest” human faculties of reason and discourse enter into it, Gandhi suggests that politics is unavoidably the realm of the corporeal, the visceral, and the passionate. He seeks to show us how the highest and most moral kind of political engagement - namely, nonviolent action - accounts for these visceral urges and calls for the wholehearted participation of the human body and its passions in political life, while requiring a certain kind of corporeal pain and suffering. Gandhi’s thought allows us to recast entirely the frames within which we inquire into the relationship between corporeality and political engagement. This reframing draws to a certain extent upon categories gleaned from Gandhi’s placement within the Indian tradition: namely those of asceticism and warriorhood (or brahminical vs. kshatriyatic) The one is cerebral, contemplative, non-visceral, withdrawn from world, repressing sensual pleasures, passive. The other is engaged, worldly, life-loving, passionate, active, indulging the senses, fiery. We have often heard that Gandhi’s nonviolence is ascetic - that is, passive, unconditionally accepting of the violence of the Other, disavowing violence, self-denying, aiming toward celibacy rather than gratification of sensual pleasures. But the warriorlike elements of his political theory are routinely under-emphasized: aggressively seeking to confront one’s desires and publicize them, using one’s body as a weapon of nonviolence, the constant invitation to physical pain and suffering, commitment to physical action and corporeal pain rather than cerebral contemplation as the main vehicles of political change. In this essay, I seek to focus on the ways in which Gandhi’s warrior-like model of political action and discourse relies on corporeal pain and aggressive confrontation of corporeal desires as a necessary moment in political exchange. I explore the possibility that for Gandhi, the suffering of corporeal pain is a crucial component of environmental political discourse." @default.
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- W42735275 title "Gandhi's Body: Asceticism, Pain and Suffering in Environmental Political Discourse" @default.
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