A Politics of Connected Flesh:

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" A Politics of Connected Flesh: "
Timothy Harvie

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1069315
Doc. No	:	LA112944
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341592‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Timothy Harvie
Title & Author	:	A Politics of Connected Flesh: [Article] : Public Theology, Ecology, and Merleau-Ponty\ Timothy Harvie
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Public Theology
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/4
Page No	:	494–512
Abstract	:	After critically reviewing the ongoing development of various publics in public theology, this article attempts to develop an additional public in nonanthropocentric terms in order to ground adequately public theology’s approach to the current climate crisis. Seeking a path between an account of Earth as a commons, with its emphasis on similarity and the diffractive method’s emphasis on the separateness of biodiverse lives, it argues that Merleau-Ponty’s articulation of the flesh of the world provides material for a politically engaged public theology. In emphasizing the separateness of embodied selves in the perceptual fields of embodied flesh, it develops an account of the ecosphere as an ontologically grounding public to correct the limitations of various ‘publics’ as human-centered institutions. In doing so, the transcendence of Earth’s embodied inhabitants is emphasized that conceives of public in terms of the connective tissues of more-than-human bodies. After critically reviewing the ongoing development of various publics in public theology, this article attempts to develop an additional public in nonanthropocentric terms in order to ground adequately public theology’s approach to the current climate crisis. Seeking a path between an account of Earth as a commons, with its emphasis on similarity and the diffractive method’s emphasis on the separateness of biodiverse lives, it argues that Merleau-Ponty’s articulation of the flesh of the world provides material for a politically engaged public theology. In emphasizing the separateness of embodied selves in the perceptual fields of embodied flesh, it develops an account of the ecosphere as an ontologically grounding public to correct the limitations of various ‘publics’ as human-centered institutions. In doing so, the transcendence of Earth’s embodied inhabitants is emphasized that conceives of public in terms of the connective tissues of more-than-human bodies.
Descriptor	:	climate
Descriptor	:	ecology
Descriptor	:	flesh
Descriptor	:	Merleau-Ponty
Descriptor	:	public theology
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341592‬