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Shedding Skins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Abstract

I argue that the experimental method, like the corporeality of the body and the permeability of skins, links John Dewey and Friedrich Nietzsche. I raise questions about referring to bodies rather than body-minds, emphasizing hypothetical construction and the body rather than mutual responsiveness and situatedness, and whether Nietzsche's elitism is comparable to Dewey's democratic ideal of inclusiveness. With Naomi Zack, I argue for substituting ethnicity for race, and also develop Jane Addams as a model for recognizing and dismantling privilege.

Type
Symposium on Shannon Sullivan's Living Across and Through Skins
Copyright
Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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