This paper attempts to dismantle the power of the gaze over us and propose to bring about a counter gaze that can help resist the crippling effects of this gaze. The gaze is focussed on the Body. In fact it produces plural and hierarchized bodies such as racists or casteist bodies etc. We begin our journey with a kind...
Body; Gaze, Shame and Counter Gaze
The metaphysics of presence is also a metaphysic of gaze. The metaphysics of presence claims the original privilege of self-transparency and plunges into immediacy. As we circum ourselves to the metaphysics of presence, our being-in-the-world comes under its gaze and we become presence-centric in all our thinking and being. Perhaps, we might trace intertwined entangling space between Derrida, Foucault...
