@article{ref1,
title="Violence as violation of experiential structures",
journal="Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences",
year="2017",
author="Breyer, Thiemo",
volume="16",
number="4",
pages="737–751-737–751",
abstract="Violence has become a prominent topic in recent phenomenological investigations. In this paper, I wish to contribute to this ongoing discourse by looking at violence in a literal sense as violation of experiential structures, insofar as it is intentionally, purposefully, and strategically imposed on a subject by another agent (individual or collective). Phenomenology provides the descriptive methodology for elucidating such structures. The violation can take the form of a radicalization, in which one of the aspects of polar experiential spectra becomes predominant, i.e. the balance between them is shifted to one extreme. I focus on the relationship between self and other on the one hand, and the relationship between body-as-subject and body-as-object on the other, as prominent topoi in the phenomenological literature. With regard to torture and solitary confinement as forms of extreme violence, I analyze how these structures are disturbed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1568-7759",
doi="10.1007/s11097-016-9476-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11097-016-9476-9"
}