Talking Minds

The Scholastic Construction of Incorporeal Discourse

Bibliographic Data

ID3809268
AuthorsMaría Julia Carozzi (Argentine Catholic University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume11
Issue2
Pages25-39
Publication date2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBody & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1357034x05052460
OpenAlexW2111472092
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited22

One of the assumptions that impregnate academic discourse, even that of social scientists committed to the re-incorporation of their disciplines, is its extra-corporeal character. This article analyzes the scholastic construction of producing and perceiving oral, written or silent discourses as non-corporeal acts. First, it argues that there is a certain continuity between monastic rituals that build the spirit as something different from and higher than the body and academic rituals that train people to place the source of discourse in the mind. Second, it explores how the separation of discourse from the discourse-producing body is currently built and reproduced through participation in university and academic rituals. It holds that such participation installs in the bodies of academics an identification with the habit of producing discourses. Finally, it suggests that the fact that attempts to re-incorporate body to social life are performed by academics who have been trained in disembodying their discourses conditions the results of such attempts

Aesthetics · Civil discourse · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Habit · Linguistics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology