Favorite Subject

My favorite subject in this semester is an elective subject. It name is “Variaciones sobre cuerpo, poder y sociedad: Merleau-Ponty, Goffman, Foucault, Bourdieu”.

This subject consist in expository classes about the body from four authors, philosophers and sociologist. The body is address like the center of the existence and how this is expressed in the society and power.

Firstly, is made a reflection about the concept of body and perception for Merleau-Ponty from his phenomenological perspective and the confrontation with occidental thinking that considered a dualism between spirit and body where the soul is transcendental. Secondly, review Goffman because for this author the body is the center of social interactions and this always represent and express something in the social space. Thirdly, we only reached to review the hegemony in the historical discourses of occident from Foucault and we cannot finish the subject and learn to rest of Foucault and Bourdieu.  But we should learn Bourdieu his proposal on the body as a producer of meanings and implications of this.

I like this subject because is possible deepen in some authors that we saw and we can learn to new authors that were not linked directly with sociology but are really important.