The modern metaphors of (auto) immunity: the philosophical debate with Contemporaneity
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.56.2025.33934Keywords:
Immunity, Autoimmunity, Contemporaneity, Modernity, Political EpistemologyAbstract
Speeches on immunity and autoimmunity have been traditionally mediated by very powerful images related to the existence of an “I” or self, an identity core, knowing and discerning of a friendly inside and an enemy outside to fight. The objective of this article is to contrast the Modern roots of these images with Contemporary perspectives that have called them into question in defense of visions that understand the body and immunity in a more porous and communicative way, overcoming the rigid internal/internal borders. in pursuit of a community-based paradigm, both at the corporeal and political levels.
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