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Brief Lives

Julia Kristeva

Dale DeBakcsy tells us how to not mean what we can’t say.

People have bodies. That’s one of those inconvenient truths that most (male) philosophers can’t shove under the metaphysical rug fast enough. And female bodies – forget it. The response of Western philosophy to them has historically been a frenzied mixture of perplexity, ‘There Be Dragons’ panic, and ultimately, stunned silence. And yet, in shocking disobedience to our philosophical masters, we humans have quite ungratefully persisted in our bodily ways.

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