Thinking bodies

Thinking bodies

by MacCannell, Juliet Flower Zakarin, Laura

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The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis. The contributors here consider the body in thought at the dawning of a 'postmodern' world that demands new ethical reflection, and they all cross in some ways the lines of division traditionally drawn between art and philosophy, high and low, first and third cultures. They do s…

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  • Full title :Thinking bodies / edited by Juliet Flower MacCannell and Laura Zakarin.

Summary

The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis. The contributors here consider the body in thought at the dawning of a 'postmodern' world that demands new ethical reflection, and they all cross in some ways the lines of division traditionally drawn between art and philosophy, high and low, first and third cultures. They do so using the body as common ground for their passage. The contributors provide a wide range of approaches to the bodily dimension of ideas in post-structuralist criticism from differing historical perspectives.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1994.

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Notes

"Essays ... presented at the 1990 meetings of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature held at the University of California, Irvine."--Introduction.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xiii, 264 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0804723060, 9780804723060, 0804723044, 9780804723046
  • oclc:ocm28929181
  • LC Classification:B105.B64
  • Dewey Decimal:128

Table of Contents

Corpus / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Response to Jean-Luc Nancy / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Jean-Luc Nancy and the corpus of philosophy / Gary Shapiro -- How to give body to a deadlock? / Slavoj Z̆iz̆ek -- Por causa mecánica : the coupling of bodies and machines and the production and reproduction of whiteness in Cecilia Valdés and nineteenth-century Cuba / Benigno Sánchez-Eppler -- Finitude's score / Avital Ronell -- Hiroshima in the morning / Peter Schwenger -- Writing the body : the rhetoric of mutilation in Marguerite Duras's L'amante anglaise / Anne Tomiche -- Writing (as) the perverse body in Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde / Jeffrey S. Librett -- American Indian lives and others' selves : the invention of Indian selves in autobiography / Greg Sarris -- How to reinvent your body in Cameroonian women's writing / Frieda Ekotto -- Corporal politics : Diderot's body of representation / Mira Kamdar -- Bodies in the light : relaxing the imaginary in video / Dorothea Olkowski -- Electronic bodies/real bodies : reading the evening news / Peter Brunette -- Transcendental narcissism meets the multiplicity (Lacan : Deleuze) / Peter Canning -- God(')s wink : the Book of Job, the university's conce…

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Subjects

Actes de congrès Aufsatzsammlung Conference papers and proceedings Corps humain (Philosophie) -- Congrès Filosofische aspecten Human body (Philosophy) Human body (Philosophy) -- Congresses Irvine <Calif., 1989> Körper Lichamelijkheid Literatur Literature -- Congresses. -- Philosophy Literature -- Philosophy Menselijk lichaam Philosophie

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MacCannell, Juliet Flower Zakarin, Laura

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