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Breyer, Thiemo ORCID: 0000-0003-0239-3090 (2017). Violence as violation of experiential structures. Phenomenol. Cogn. Sci., 16 (4). S. 737 - 752. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1572-8676

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Abstract

Violence has become a prominent topic in recent phenomenological investigations. In this paper, I wish to contribute to this ongoing discourse by looking at violence in a literal sense as violation of experiential structures, insofar as it is intentionally, purposefully, and strategically imposed on a subject by another agent (individual or collective). Phenomenology provides the descriptive methodology for elucidating such structures. The violation can take the form of a radicalization, in which one of the aspects of polar experiential spectra becomes predominant, i.e. the balance between them is shifted to one extreme. I focus on the relationship between self and other on the one hand, and the relationship between body-as-subject and body-as-object on the other, as prominent topoi in the phenomenological literature. With regard to torture and solitary confinement as forms of extreme violence, I analyze how these structures are disturbed.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Breyer, Thiemo UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0239-3090 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-220064
DOI:	10.1007/s11097-016-9476-9
Journal or Publication Title:	Phenomenol. Cogn. Sci.
Volume:	16
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 737 - 752
Date:	2017
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1572-8676
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 8: Philosophie > Philosophisches Seminar
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language TORTURE; INHUMAN; CRUEL Multiple languages Philosophy Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/22006