Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity - Couverture souple

Fernández-Medina, Nicolás

 
9780773553378: Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0773553371 ISBN 13 : 9780773553378
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The concept of vital force – the immanent energy that promotes the processes of life in the body and in nature – has proved a source of endless fascination and controversy. Indeed, the question of what vitalizes the body has haunted humanity since antiquity, and became even more pressing during the Scientific Revolution and beyond. Examining the complexities and theories about vital force in Spanish modernity, Nicolás Fernández-Medina's Life Embodied offers a novel and provocative assessment of the question of bodily life in Spain. Starting with Juan de Cabriada's landmark Carta filosófica, médico-chymica of 1687 and ending with Ramón Gómez de la Serna's avant-gardism of the 1910s, Fernández-Medina incorporates discussions of anatomy, philosophy, science, critical theory, history of medicine, and literary studies to argue that concepts of vital force served as powerful vehicles to interrogate the possibilities and limits of corporeality. Paying close attention to how the body's capabilities were conceived and strategically woven into critiques of modernity, Fernández-Medina engages the work of Miguel Boix y Moliner, Martín Martínez, Diego de Torres Villarroel, Sebastián Guerrero Herreros, Ignacio María Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Pedro Mata y Fontanet, Ángela Grassi, Julián Sanz del Río, Miguel de Unamuno, and Pío Baroja, among others. Drawing on extensive research and analysis, Life Embodied breaks new ground as the first book to address the question of vital force in Spanish modernity.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nicolás Fernández-Medina is associate professor of Spanish and philosophy and co-director of the Spanish and Italian Modernist Studies Forum at Pennsylvania State University.

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Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0773553371
ISBN 13 
9780773553378
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780773553361: Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity

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ISBN 10 :  0773553363 ISBN 13 :  9780773553361
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018
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