«So Many Ways of Singing the World»: Reflections on Transborder Movement, Common Speech, and Care for the World with Arendt and Merleau-Ponty
Abstract Today, in times of intensification of migratory mobility around the world, and hence multiplication and diversification of languages spoken in and on the margins of the communities we inhabit, sharing a language is less and less a matter of course. In this paper, I examine practices of speaking to each other under the condition of lack of a common language, i.e. situations in which no foundation for verbal communication is given but also translingual communication using proximity of languages, as well as mediated speaking. Theoretically, I primarily depend on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of language and Hannah Arendt’s political and existential reflections on speech.
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CARENS, Joseph. «Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders». The Review of Politics 49, 2 (1987): 251-273.
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Robaszkiewicz , M. (2024). «So Many Ways of Singing the World»: Reflections on Transborder Movement, Common Speech, and Care for the World with Arendt and Merleau-Ponty. Azafea: Revista De Filosofía, 26, 143–163. https://doi.org/10.14201/azafea202426143163
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