The Agent in Pain: Alienation and Discursive Abuse

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description My aim in this paper is to draw attention to a currently underdeveloped notion of pain and alienation, in order to sketch an account of the harms of ‘discursive abuse’. This form of abuse comprises systemic practices of violating a person’s vulnerable integrity as a knowing agent. Discursive abuse results in, what I would like to call, ‘agential alienation’. This particular genus of alienation, whose broad conceptual origins lie in the respective works of Hegel and the early Marx, involves an agent being robbed of their self-conception as a rational inquirer and participant in a deliberative public sphere. Such alienation causes a particular kind of pain for an agent that often has harrowing material effects.
format Journal Article
author Giladi, Paul
author_facet Giladi, Paul
authorStr Giladi, Paul
author_letter Giladi, Paul
title The Agent in Pain: Alienation and Discursive Abuse
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/40154/

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