Illness makes the lived body appear as an object, a given substance.

Evidence

Thus pain does not simply constitute irrefutable evidence of the corporeal ground of experience, it is also a way of constituting the epistemological status of “the body.” — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 447 (#expands, via linked claim)

Although the living body is the object of sensations (and in that sense passive), its ability to suffer, to respond perceptually and emotionally to external and internal causes, to use its own pain in unique ways in particular social relationships, makes it active. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 435 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Suffering and pain can make the living body an active agent. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 435; The Disease is constituted as an object belonging to others, not to me; The body is constituted as the totality of its meaningful relations to the world (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The Disease is constituted as an object belonging to others, not to me #expands (0.80)
• Pain partially constitutes the body’s epistemological and moral status. #expands (0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 447
• Suffering and pain can make the living body an active agent. #contradicts (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 435
• The body is constituted as the totality of its meaningful relations to the world #contradicts (0.75)