Politische Körper - Talk

In the organizer's words:

🎭🌍 An event organized by euro-scene Leipzig. Lecture and talk.

Jule Govrin: Political bodies. Of care and solidarity.
Moderation: Prof. Patrick Primavesi

The term POLITICAL BODIES describes how power shapes, standardizes and controls bodies. Philosophical concepts by Thomas Hobbes, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Achille Mbembe show the extent to which bodies are shaped by society.

The philosopher Jule Govrin provides an overview of these ways of thinking and analyzes how social inequality is politically produced as structural vulnerability. She contrasts this with a fundamental, universal vulnerability - as a common condition of human existence and the starting point for a politics of care and solidarity. In the field of tension between the concept of the subject, biopolitics, capitalism and the coronavirus pandemic, she outlines a practice that aims for equality through the recognition of difference - and thus opens up new paths to solidarity with one another.

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