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The lived experience of COVID-19 forcibly returns us to our bodies. This essay uses this (for most, sudden) return to embodiment to consider how our senses, as well as our "sense" of space, have been reoriented by this pandemic. It turns to certain strands within feminist philosophy that have questioned the privileged place vision has been accorded in the history of Western thought, as well as to mid-twentieth century phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's aim to rediscover the world of perception by philosophically centring the body, as touchstones to put forth a phenomenology of contagion. Contagion makes us confront our phenomenological and embodied experience of tactility. This focus on tactility undermines the philosophical hierarchy of the senses that accords sight as the most "noble" of the senses in Western canonical thought. While COVID-19 results in us rediscovering our bodies through touch in a moment of fear and panic, this essay considers how this rediscovery may be harnessed for different, possibly more just, futures.

Titel:	The Phenomenology of Contagion.
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person:	Dahiya, A
Zeitschrift:	Journal of bioethical inquiry, Jg. 17 (2020-12-01), Heft 4, S. 519
Veröffentlichung:	Dordrecht : Springer ; <i>Original Publication</i>: Dunedin, N.Z. : Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, 2020
Medientyp:	academicJournal
ISSN:	1872-4353 (electronic)
DOI:	10.1007/s11673-020-09997-4
Schlagwort:	Body Image Communicable Diseases Fear Human Body Humans Pandemics Physical Distancing SARS-CoV-2 Sensation Social Justice COVID-19 psychology COVID-19 transmission Interpersonal Relations Perception Philosophy Touch
Sonstiges:	Nachgewiesen in: MEDLINE Sprachen: English Publication Type: Journal Article Language: English [J Bioeth Inq] 2020 Dec; Vol. 17 (4), pp. 519-523. <i>Date of Electronic Publication: </i>2020 Aug 25. MeSH Terms: COVID-19* / psychology ; COVID-19* / transmission ; Interpersonal Relations* ; Perception* ; Philosophy* ; Touch* ; Body Image ; Communicable Diseases ; Fear ; Human Body ; Humans ; Pandemics ; Physical Distancing ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Sensation ; Social Justice References: Carmon, T. 2012. Foreword to The phenomenology of perception, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, vii–xvi. Translated by Donald A. Landes. New York and London: Routledge. ; Cohen, E. 2003. Metaphorical immunity: A case of biomedical fiction. Literature and Medicine 22(2): 140–163. (PMID: 10.1353/lm.2003.0016) ; Dahiya, A. 2018. Before the cell, there was virus: Rethinking the concept of parasite and contagion through contemporary research in evolutionary virology. 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