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Understanding of “Body” in Constructivist Feminism and in Paul Ricoeur
Byun, Kyung-Won
The purpose of this thesis is to propose possibility to put feministic resistance into action through the organic body that comes from Ricoeur's body theory. In the tradition of Western philosophy, the body of women has been treated as subordinate in the dichotomous category of body and soul. Feminism has resisted this physical determinism that justified women’s discrimination against men.
In the perspective of constructivism that Bordo and Irigaray insist, it is complex to disc over a definite hypostasis of women’s body as an organic subject. This thesis aims to find the probability of the organic subject of the resistant bearer in the context of Paul Ricoeur’s body theory.
Ricoeur’s body theory is followed by a process of “voluntary phenomenology.” The phenomenological concept of Ricoeur’s voluntary activity is formed through the reciprocality between involuntariness and voluntariness of the following three aspects: the body’s decision, motion and consent. Cartesian cogito is modified by this reciprocal relation, at the same time bringing in the organic subject as an incarnated subject to become the subject of action. This is the point that constructivist feminism discovers the silent agent.
The subject of Ricoeur’s incarnated body is predicted to pass over all the dichotomous composition of soul and body and even the constructivist composition in that it can be a subject of action that holds the functions as a political and moral transactor.
