Body in temptation : an attempt at orientation in a boundary situation

Štivić, Stjepan (author)

In this article, author seeks a point of reference regarding the status of the human body in times of health crisis caused by the pandemic. He finds that point in the notion of the boundary situation and through it, from a historical perspective, emphasizes the social and epidemiological features of a pandemic. The author asks about the meaning of the term ,health crisis‘. The author points out that this crisis is predicated upon a narrative predominantly about the body. Furthermore, the author sees the basis for this direction of the crisis narrative in the contemporary anthropological assumption about the body, which has the characteristics of Gnostic dualism. Finally, the author points out that this particular assumption can also become the guiding thread in devising the notion of a new normality through the way of permanent virtualization of real processes.

• Language: English
• Keywords: crisis, body, anthropology, pandemic, new normality
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.03 - Other scientific articles
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2020
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 443-451
• Numbering: Letn. 80, [št.] 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163654
• UDC: 128.5
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2020/02/Stivic
• COBISS.SI-ID: 41067779
• Publication date in RUL: 10.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik : glasilo Teološke fakultete v Ljubljani
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Teološka fakulteta
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Telo v skušnjavi : poskus orientacije v mejni situaciji

Abstract

V tem besedilu avtor išče referenčno točko glede stanja človeškega telesa v času zdravstvene krize, ki jo je povzročila pandemija. To točko najde v pojmu mejne situacije in skozi to z zgodovinskega vidika poudarja socialne in epidemiološke značilnosti pandemije. Avtor se sprašuje o pomenu izraza zdravstvena kriza. Avtor poudarja, da kriza temelji na narativu, ki se pretežno nanaša na telo. Poleg tega avtor vidi osnovo za to smer kriznega narativa v sodobni antropološki predpostavki o telesu, ki ima značilnosti gnostičnega dualizma. Na koncu avtor poudarja, da lahko ta predpostavka postane tudi vodilna nit pri oblikovanju pojma nove normalnosti s pomočjo trajne virtualizacije resničnih procesov.

• Keywords: kriza, telo, antropologija, pandemija, nova normalnost