On Pain and Passibility, or the Temporalities of Ensoulment
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The intervention of Chapter 2 in Formations of the Secular (Asad 2003), “Thinking about Agency and Pain,” hinges on formulating pain as a species of action. This specification is also a means of theorizing the temporality of formations themselves, the temporalization of form. The modern concept of agency, it turns out, is a force of temporal homogenization or, more simply, a spatialization of time that necessarily mistakes pain for an ahistorical null point.
Source: Religion and Society
Author: Aaron F. Eldridge
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411145360