How Can Philosophy Speak to a World in Crisis? The Answer May Lie in Our Bodies.

Pain and vulnerability can isolate us — or be the source of our deepest bonds, says philosopher Drew Leder.

The body is precarious. That is, as embodied people, we are all precarious, interdependent, fragile, vulnerable. As much as neoliberalism would like us to believe otherwise, we are not totally independent and asocial. My body is aging as I write this sentence. Indeed, none of us are impervious to growing old. In doing so, we will need to confront the adverse conditions that come with aging: loss...

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