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The Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life

Niches of Liberation

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Authors:
  1. Leszek Koczanowicz

    1. Faculty of Humanities, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland

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  • Comprehensive depiction of the relationship between everyday life and politics

  • Explanation of the body as a vehicle of liberation

  • View on the COVID-19 pandemic as a socio-political phenomenon

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Concepts: Somapower, the Microphysics of Emancipation, and the Politics of Everyday Life

    • Leszek Koczanowicz
    Pages 1-41

  3. Applications: Everyday Life, the Body, and Strategies of Resistance

    • Leszek Koczanowicz
    Pages 43-89

  4. The Pandemic and the Politics of the Body

    • Leszek Koczanowicz
    Pages 91-123

  5. Conclusions

    • Leszek Koczanowicz
    Pages 125-127

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 129-138
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About this book

The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at the heart of this book. The author explores how events in everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how the body becomes a site of political practice. Subject to regulation, the body functions as a vehicle of oppressive social influences, and has been studied as such by philosophers within the framework of biopolitics. However, the body is also a locus of resistance and rebellion against the entrenched rules, a quality which the author refers to as somapower. The revolt of the body usually begins and develops beyond political spaces – in emancipatory cultural niches, which may gradually accrue political resonance.  While this microphysics of emancipation, with its potential for remodeling political life, is particularly important in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, it is also a relevant force in democracies, where it may foster social change. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Humanities, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland

    Leszek Koczanowicz

About the author

Leszek Koczanowicz is Professor of Cultural Studies and Political Science at the Faculty of Humanities, SWPS University, Wrocław, Poland.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life

  • Book Subtitle: Niches of Liberation

  • Authors: Leszek Koczanowicz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44833-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44832-4Published: 18 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44833-1Published: 17 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 138

  • Topics: Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy

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