| Description |
vi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Situating the Body / Donn Welton -- Man and Woman / Rom Harre -- Selections from Gender Trouble / Judith Butler -- "Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture / Susan Bordo -- Material Bodies / Susan Hekman -- Selection from Bodies that Matter / Judith Butler -- Bringing Body to Theory / Susan Bordo -- Renaturalizing the Body (with the Help of Merleau-Ponty) / Carol Bigwood -- A Tale of Two Bodies: the Cartesian Corpse and the Lived Body / Drew Leder -- Body Image and Body Schema in a Deafferented Subject / Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Cole -- Corporeal Archetypes and Power: Preliminary Clarifications and Considerations of Sex / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone -- Affectivity, Eros and the Body / Donn Welton -- The Ghost of Embodiment: on Bodily Habitudes and Schemata / Edward Casey -- Biblical Bodies / Donn Welton -- Throwing like a Girl / Iris Young -- Pregnant Embodiment / Iris Young -- "Throwing like a Girl": Twenty Years Later / Iris Young |
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Reading the Slender Body / Susan Bordo -- Male Bodies and the "White Terror" / Klaus Theweleit -- Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Bodies, Virtual Bodies and Technology / Don Ihde |
| Summary |
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 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate |
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Postgraduate |
| Subject |
Human body (Philosophy)
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| Author |
Welton, Donn, editor
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| LC no. |
97016963 |
| ISBN |
1577181255 (alkaline paper) |
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1577181263 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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