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Rivera, Mayra

 
9780822360131: Poetics of the Flesh
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822360136 ISBN 13 : 9780822360131
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In Poetics of the Flesh Mayra Rivera offers poetic reflections on how we understand our carnal relationship to the world, at once spiritual, organic, and social. She connects conversations about corporeality in theology, political theory, and continental philosophy to show the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and modern Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh." Her readings of the biblical writings of John and Paul as well as the work of Tertullian illustrate how Christian ideas of flesh influenced the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, and inform her readings of Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, and others. Rivera also furthers developments in new materialism by exploring the intersections among bodies, material elements, social arrangements, and discourses through body and flesh. By painting a complex picture of bodies, and by developing an account of how the social materializes in flesh, Rivera provides a new way to understand gender and race.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mayra Rivera is Associate Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822360136
ISBN 13 
9780822360131
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
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Personne responsable
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