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. --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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