On Speech as the Political Faculty in the Anthropocene. The Sensualities of Voice and Taste Combined

• Authors: Urszula Lisowska

Abstracts

PL

Artykuł proponuje przeformułowanie koncepcji mowy jako fundamentalnej kompetencji politycznej w odpowiedzi na wyzwania antropocenu. Po pierwsze, wykazuje się, że mowa powinna być rozumiana nie tyle jako podsystem języka, ile jako wyraz ucieleśnionego głosu (pod tym względem artykuł podąża za argumentacją Adriany Cavarero [2005]). Po drugie, przekonuje się, że głos należy interpretować w powiązaniu z kompetencją smaku (konceptualizowaną w duchu Arendtowskiego ujęcia Kanta), ponieważ dzięki temu możliwe będzie umiejscowienie polityki w szerszym kontekście materialności (physis).

EN

The paper revises the idea of speech as a fundamental political faculty in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene. First, it is argued that, rather than as a subsystem of language, speech should be conceptualised as the expression of the embodied capacity of voice (in this respect, the paper follows Adriana Cavarero’s [2005] argument). Secondly, vocality is linked to the faculty of taste (understood as in Arendt’s reading of Kant) to locate politics in the broader order of materiality (physis).

Keywords

EN

speech; voice; language; judgment; taste; the Anthropocene

PL

mowa; głos; język; sąd; smak; antropocen

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 58
• Pages: 17-33

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Urszula Lisowska

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski

• https://orcid.org/0000000321776732

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18276/aie.2022.58-02

Biblioteka Nauki

2127723