This essay examines Adriana Cavarero’s critique of the exclusion of women from politics and the paradoxical relationship between rationality and voice. It explores the possibility of rethinking politics from bodies and uniqueness, highlighting an erotic relational ethics. Connecting Cavarero’s ideas with Lynne Huffer’s concept of the lips as an emblem of queer female difference offers potential for constructing embodied, pluralistic relations beyond dialectics.

Paradoxes of Political Bodies: Cavarero’s Voices and Their Challenges to Political Discourses / C. Cossutta. - In: JOURNAL OF ITALIAN PHILOSOPHY. - ISSN 2515-6039. - 7:(2024), pp. 127-144.

Paradoxes of Political Bodies: Cavarero’s Voices and Their Challenges to Political Discourses

C. Cossutta
2024

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This essay examines Adriana Cavarero’s critique of the exclusion of women from politics and the paradoxical relationship between rationality and voice. It explores the possibility of rethinking politics from bodies and uniqueness, highlighting an erotic relational ethics. Connecting Cavarero’s ideas with Lynne Huffer’s concept of the lips as an emblem of queer female difference offers potential for constructing embodied, pluralistic relations beyond dialectics.
Adriana Cavarero; exclusion; paradox; embodied politics; political philosophy;
Settore SPS/01 - Filosofia Politica
2024
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