Salute normativity

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Salute normativity denotes a view of reality that is focused on physical and mental health as normality . This perspective measures everything in a healthy person and sees illness, discomfort or disability as an unwelcome deviation or deficit. Health is therefore a norm that structures all social, economic, cultural, literary and religious dimensions in a leading way.

Concept genesis

The term was originally coined by the German-American poet Paul-Henri Campbell based on Judith Butler's idea of heteronormativity . The term is made up of the Latin salus (= well-being, well-being, salvation, security, health) and ancient Greek νόμος (nomos = law, custom, custom, guideline, yardstick). Campbell developed the first theoretical approach to the phenomenon of salute normativity in the afterword to his volume of poems after the anesthesia (2017).

There it says: “Salute normativity - everything is intended by and for healthy people, the institutions, the metaphors, the ideas of a successful life, our religious categories. The sick are naturally at odds with these healthy paradigms. The healthy language that we use, that we learn, is dominated by an outrageous vitality, unbroken and at most saddened here and there by a little melancholy. The language I mean comes from insufficiency. "

Development and reception

Campbell himself understands salute normativity as a hermeneutical key that helps to diagnose cultural and linguistic relationships with regard to their perspective on health and illness as well as economic and political effects. The journalist Alina Bach received the term with regard to intersubjective psychology and well-being in partnerships. In the introduction to her stories, the writer Sudabeh Mohafez also uses a salutary normative view.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antje Weber: It's not healthy. sueddeutsche.de , August 13, 2017, accessed on August 29, 2018 .
  2. ^ Paul-Henri Campbell: Thoughts on poetry after anesthesia . In: Language in the Technical Age . No. 217 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2016, p. 113-115 .
  3. ↑ Beate Tröger: Sprachkunst - great lyric poetry with heart defects. Friday , April 19, 2017, accessed on August 29, 2018 .
  4. ^ Badische Zeitung: Song of the damaged life - literature & lectures - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on August 29, 2018]).
  5. ^ Paul-Henri Campbell: after the anesthesia . Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-88423-556-0 , p. 81 .
  6. ↑ Gregor Dotzauer: On the soul, on the tongue . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . March 27, 2018, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed August 29, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Alina Bach: Love in Dark Times . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-9862-6 , p. 52-54 .
  8. ↑ Sudabeh Mohafez: Keep the flight in mind . edition AZUR, Dresden 2017, ISBN 978-3-942375-31-3 , p. 4 .