Autoethnography and ‘chimeric-thinking’: A phenomenological reconsideration of illness and alterity

This paper tackles the concept of alterity through an embodied perspective. By questioning my lived experience of cancer and how illness—as a disruptive event (Carel, 2008, 2016, 2021)—enables philosophical reflection and the exploration of ‘other’ ways of being-in-the-world (Merleau-Ponty 2012 [194...

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Main Author: Pini, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
In: The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 2022, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-46
Further subjects:B phenomenology of the body
B autoethnography
B feminist philosophy
B Embodiment
B Medical anthropology
B phenomenology of illness
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