Abstract

ALVARADO GRECCO, Daniel Salvador. A redefinition of transcendental violence seen from shame and despise of oneself. Estud.filos [online]. 2023, n.67, pp.25-42.  Epub Jan 24, 2023. ISSN 0121-3628.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.349348.

Jacques Derrida coined the term “transcendental violence” to account for a kind of violence that begins as soon as the other appears to us. This “original” violence is paired with a betrayal of the other’s singularity since language and phenomenality impose a meaning upon them. Despite Derrida’s efforts to question the idea that violence stems from an originally peaceful state, his account does not provide any explanation of violence as a lived experience, nor does it elaborate on how it is lived by the ego. In this essay, I will try to reappropriate the concept of transcendental violence and link it with shame, which I will define here as an objectifying glance that has consequences on the ego’s behavior. I will argue that the link between violence and shame can be appreciated by paying attention to the way the ego assumes the objectifying glance.

Keywords : ego; autonomy; despise; shame; the look; transcendental violence; body.

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