Thinking the Limits of the Body - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0791455998 ISBN 13 : 9780791455999

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2003

Synopsis

Shows the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in discussions of the body.

This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gail Weiss is Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the George Washington University. She is the coeditor (with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen) of Thinking the Limits of the Body, also published by SUNY Press, and (with Dorothea Olkowski) of Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791455998
• ISBN 13: 9780791455999
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 211
• Éditeur: Cohen Jeffrey Jerome, Weiss Gail
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible