Resumen

HONORATO, Diego; CAVIEDES, Gabriela  y  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 20-Jun-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.

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