Abstract

HONORATO, Diego; CAVIEDES, Gabriela  and  GARCIA-HUIDOBRO, Joaquín. The Naked Body as a Political Weapon. An Analysis from the Thought of Merleau-Ponty (and Michel Henry). Rev. filos.open insight [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.26, pp.64-85.  Epub June 20, 2022. ISSN 2395-8936.  https://doi.org/10.23924/oi.v12i26.428.

In recent years, the use of nudity in public spaces has frequently become used to promote or reject certain policies, in such a way that the movements that turn to what has been called «political porn» are now numerous. The central argument of the article uses Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to show how the political exposition of the body cancels the possibility of being recognized for what one is and shifts the interlocutors (exhibitionist-spectator) towards a negative dialectic of mutual ignorance. Finally, it is shown why, in a democratic and plural society, the political display of the naked body itself tends, by its own reifying nature, to undermine the conditions of the rational exercise of public deliberation.

Keywords : corporal exhibition; masterslave dialectic; Merleau-Ponty; political deliberation; political nude.

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