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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:02:12 -0800
From: Carla Williams <CJWilliams-AT-getty.edu>
Subject: PLC: CFP: Body as Source and Site of Argument


dear sirs,

i was forwarded the following call for papers and would
like to quote part of the text in an essay i'm writing. i need to
give it the proper attribution, so if someone could get back to
me with the author's name and other information, i would
greatly appreciate it.

thank you,

carla williams


Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 13:25:22 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Reply-To: phillitcrit-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
To: PhilLitCrit <phillitcrit-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: PLC: CFP: Body as Source and Site of Argument

THE BODY AS SOURCE AND SITE OF ARGUMENT
The journal Argumentation & Advocacy calls for essays for
a special issue
titled "The Body as Source and Site of Argument.

We experience our bodies in incongruous ways.  The
privacy of our sensations,
the personal awareness derived from physical acts, the joys
and pleasures
aroused through intimate contact with other bodies teach us
profound lessons about our personal identity and
self-sufficiency.  We
experience our own body in ways that are unavailable to the
inspection of
others.  Our pain or ecstasy is our own and known only
second hand to those with
whom we share its secrets.  But our bodies also are in the
world.  Like Adam and
Eve after the fall, we encounter strange and unlike things. 
Beyond the gates of
our privacy we become aware of our flaws and experience
rebukefor our personal
insufficiency; our innocence is lost and we experience
shame in our nakedness.
        The incongruity between personal lessons of
self-sufficiency and public
ones of insufficiency is transferred to the tension between
domination and
civilization in the civic realm.  There we attempt to shape an
arena that can
protect us from our own weaknesses and those of others but
also can accommodate
our desire to turn toward those others and be open to
experiencing them as the
Other.  This public experience of the body, including the
most intimate aspects
of its private contact with other bodies, is part of a larger
historical and
cultural dialogue on the body. The voices engaged in this
conversation speak in
many arenas:  the pulpit and confessional, medical practice,
psychotherapy,
schools, the legislative assembly and the courts, penal
institutions, political
practices, urban and architectural design, fashion design,
literature and the
arts, and of course, the streets.  These discursive arenas
transform the
personal and private experiences of the body into an object
of public
expression, and sometimes into performances that are
themselves public
expressions.  As they acquire official status, whether by
virtue of trust (as in
the efficacy of medical practice), faith (as in the redemptive
force of
religion), law (as in the authority of the state to regulate and
the penal
system to punish), instituional practices (as in the
imposition of discipline by
the educational system) or ballot, they speak a discourse of
power in which the
individual's self-sufficiency is made the object of protection
and regulation. 
In sum, our bodies are contestive sites but also sources of
argument.  These and
other topics are possible areas of discussion on the body as
a source and form
of argument.

Questions?  Contact Guest Editor Gerard Hauser at
hauserg-AT-spot.colorado.edu or
303/492-6756 or Edward Schiappa at
schia001-AT-gold.tc.umn.edu or 612/624-2808. 
Three copies of the completed papers must be submitted by
September 15, 1998 to Gerard Hauser, Communication
Department, CB270, University
of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0270.  Consult
the journal for formal
requirements.


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