Corporeal Passions: Experiments in Visceral Writing
The only logic known to Sade was the logic of his feelings.
(Albert Camus, 1956: 36)
The Unknown Life of the Body
In Western tradition, the body has been considered an obstacle not only to intelligence but also to action. It is quite puzzling to think of the body not being relegated to meanings and representations. Paradoxically, if the body has a magical plenitude for active forces, it is also a passive agent waiting to be inscribed by particular logos. In the realm of social sciences a certain metaphysics setting dualisms between body and mind, subject and object, nature and culture, as well as presence and significance has been at work. The life of the body still remains unconscious and un-theorized. Gilles Deleuze, writing on Spinoza and Nietzsche, diagrams a philosophical reversal by posing a paralelism between body and thought.
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