Corpus
How have we thought "the body"? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the "mystical body of Christ"{u2015}all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy{u2019}s masterwork. This book is a work of literary force at once phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its multiple orientations and approaches. In thirty-six brief sections, the author offers us a…
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- Full title :Corpus / Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Richard A. Rand.
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How have we thought "the body"? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the "mystical body of Christ"{u2015}all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy{u2019}s masterwork. This book is a work of literary force at once phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its multiple orientations and approaches. In thirty-six brief sections, the author offers us at once an encyclopedia and a polemical program{u2015}reviewing classical takes on the "corpus" from Plato, Aristotle, and Saint Paul to Descartes, Hegel, Husserl, and Freud, while demonstrating that the mutations (technological, biological, and political) of our own culture have given rise to the need for a new understanding of the body.--Publisher's description.
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- Publication Date:2008.
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- Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 173 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780823229611, 0823229610, 9780823229628, 0823229629
- oclc:ocn227930904
- LC Classification:B105.B64
- Dewey Decimal:128/.6
Table of Contents
Translator's note -- Corpus -- On the soul -- The extension of the soul -- To exist is to exit the point / by Antonia Birnbaum -- Indices on the body -- The intruder.
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