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Implications for teaching When I originally began to think of my contribution to the Travelling Selves workgroup I was very much inspired by the term selves – the plural form of self. The treatment of the concept selves allowed me to flee from the philosophical canon on the self or the I. The concept of Travelling Selves created a firm ground to explore the dependency and intertwine with other selves. My chapter serves as a request to question and challenge particular thought experiments in the liberal Anglo-Saxon political philosophy stemming from John Rawls canonised work A Theory of Justice (1976) where he advocates a methodology of ignorance to one’s enmeshment with the world – known as the veil of ignorance. The Self or the I behind this veil of ignorance will, in the ideal situation, create the most just and fair society since he does not know where in the society he will be situated after he has created the societal structures and distributed wealth. 38 Do we need these sorts of thought experiments where the self is left alone and striped of all marks of ethicality, belongings, gender, age, etc? The self we are left with is only imagined and displaced from its worldly belonging and engage ment with other selves. A question that students might like to consider is the following: Were these thought experiments elaborated because the world is too real and there actually exist real examples of the consequences of injustice and trade in real human bodies, which can be to hard to face? (Here, facing is meant in its most literal sense.) Or is it necessary to detach ourselves for one another and from our worldly being to conduct a rational life? The text highlights an often-neglected fact when dealing with highly theoretical texts and discussions, namely the plausibility of singling out a subject or the self as a unique enclosed object of study. Firstly the text may facilitate and encourage the student’s own involvement and dependency with the studied object. Secondly the text can serve as inspiration to reflect on one’s own dependency on other subjects at a time when individuality has been emphasised as the goal of living a successful life. The latter brings the text to another level of reading since it renders an existential account of making a career within academia, since questions of professional life and private life are not considered to be fully separable. Study of the text will be a fruitful way of questioning independency, dependency and interdependency in the case of scholarly life and the manner in which one’s research affects one’s 38 John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999 [1971] 44
own personal standpoint or social status/or the understanding of stratifications such as gender, race, class and age in today’s society. In this essay I have travelled through different philosophical voices and mixed in my own travelling to becoming a feminist philosopher. I have visited places where I only was blind. I will end the present journey with a new beginning. Rather this is not the end but an opening to the other. The concluding sentence is a question to the other. Are we two now? Bibliography Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Bal, Meike. Travelling Concepts – in the Humanities Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Bjerrum Nielsen, Harriet, and Monica Rudberg. Moderne Jenter,- Tre generasjoner på vei. Modern Girls, - Three generations. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2006 Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. New York: Colombia University Press, 1994. de Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième sexe, Vol. 1-2. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, [1949] 1976. Descartes, Rene. Les passions de l’âme. Paris: Gallimard, 1964 [1644]. Grosz, Elizabeth. Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989. Hegel, G.W.F. Phänomenologie des Geistes. Werke 3. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, Wissenschaft, [1832-1845] 1996. Irigaray, Luce. An Ethics of Sexual Difference. London & New York: Continuum, 2004. Irigaray, Luce. Between East and West – From Singularity to Community. New Delhi: New Age Books, 2002. Irigaray, Luce. Democracy Begins Between Two (New York : Routledge 1994): 37 Irigaray, Luce. Speculum of the Other Woman. Translated by Gillian C. Gill. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. Kierkegaard, Søren. Works of Love. Translated by Howard V. Hong and Adna H. Hong. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1995. Vol.16 May Schott, Robin. Feminism and the History of Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007 Munk Rösing, Lilian. Kønnets katekismus. Frederiksberg: Roskilde Universitetsforlag, 2005. 45
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