The concept of the body is one of the most recent, and hotly contested areas of inquiry among philosophers today.
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"It may be the most comprehensive and impressive collection to date." Dorothea Olkowski, University to Denver
"The volume provides an excellent survey of theories of the body that have been advanced during the Nineties" Lieke van der Scheer, Ethical Perspectives 5
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The concept of the body is one of the most recent, and hotly contested areas of inquiry among philosophers today. This volume captures the different theoretical approaches at the core of the current discussion and offers studies that deal with various aspects of the constitution of the body. It is designed primarily to be used on upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses, such as philosophy of the Body, Philosophical Psychology, Gender Studies, and Contemporary Continental Philosophy, and will also be useful as a primary source for philosophers seeking a deeper understanding of the topic.
Attempting to cut a third way between the usual alternatives of social Constructionist and Naturalist approaches to the body, this collection turns to both the biological and the social sciences as a starting point for an adequate critique of the body, before moving to offer a cultural analysis. The volume blends seminal essays with the new and original pieces to take the analysis into new areas, and includes contributions from Judith Butler, Susan Bordo, Rom Harré, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Mary Rawlinson, Hubert Dreyfus, and Iris Young.
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Is the distinction "man"/"woman" anything like the chemical distinction "acid"/"alkali?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sexual signaling behavior, male genital exposure, feminine bodily existence, corporeal archetypes, inhibited intentionality, incarnate situation, feminine motility, penile display, mothering body, discontinuous unity, visual proprioception, feminine bodily comportment, feminine body comportment, animate form, magic knives, perceptual body, body schema, feminine existence, somatic compliance, lived body, signifying economy, elective cosmetic surgery, proprioceptive awareness, intersexual selection, motor schemas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Phenomenology of Perception, Judith Butler, Hebrew Bible, Sheets Johnstone, Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight, Indiana University Press, Standard Edition, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Michel Foucault, Die Kadetten, Feminist Studies, Simone de Beauvoir, The Reproduction of Mothering, Toronto Star, University of California Press, Cornell University Press, Drei Abhandlungen, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, New Testament, Northwestern University Press New!
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Is the distinction "man"/"woman" anything like the chemical distinction "acid"/"alkali?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sexual signaling behavior, male genital exposure, feminine bodily existence, corporeal archetypes, inhibited intentionality, incarnate situation, feminine motility, penile display, mothering body, discontinuous unity, visual proprioception, feminine bodily comportment, feminine body comportment, animate form, magic knives, perceptual body, body schema, feminine existence, somatic compliance, lived body, signifying economy, elective cosmetic surgery, proprioceptive awareness, intersexual selection, motor schemas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Phenomenology of Perception, Judith Butler, Hebrew Bible, Sheets Johnstone, Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight, Indiana University Press, Standard Edition, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Michel Foucault, Die Kadetten, Feminist Studies, Simone de Beauvoir, The Reproduction of Mothering, Toronto Star, University of California Press, Cornell University Press, Drei Abhandlungen, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, New Testament, Northwestern University Press New!
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- Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler on 10 pages
- RC Series Bundle: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Routledge Classics) by Mary Douglas on 5 pages
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on 4 pages
- Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault on 4 pages
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre on page 44, page 179, and page 273
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- Sites Of Autopsy In Contemporary Culture (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture) by Elizabeth Klaver in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis Of Medical Imaging (In Vivo:the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science) by Jose Van Dijck in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and by Shannon Sullivan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Will Fisher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics by Marsha Meskimmon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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