CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Chubinidze, Giorgi |
|---|---|
| Title | The Facial Paradigm: Face in the Western Politico-Philosophical Thought |
| Summary | The following thesis is united by a claim that within the dominant Western juridical, philosophical and theological discourses operates a facial paradigm, that places the face as a sine qua non for the fraternity, sovereignty and democratic politics. Furthermore, this study aims at establishing the claim that this dominant facial paradigm is overdetermined by androcentric, ethnocentric and anthropocentric presuppositions. Through the readings of the canonical Western political and theological thinkers such as, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emmanuel Levinas, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Plato and Tertullian I will show how they are united by their political conceptualization of face, which they often define against what they consider to be false faces or masks and how these binaries operate with their inherent instability. The facial paradigm that this study will articulate will be useful not only to understand the Western politico-philosophical canon in a new light, but also to better understand the present common-sense ideas regarding face. This study doesn’t take for granted the commonsense Western understandings of face, but aims to demonstrate how they are the effects of the dominant Western politico-philosophical discourses. |
| Supervisor | Timár, Eszter; Yoon, Hyaesin |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/chubinidze_giorgi.pdf |
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