In a series of case studies focusing on the Arab spring revolutions, the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body, gender, and space to the revolutions, showing how a diverse group of women and girls publicly disputed gen…
Christians have traditionally claimed that humans are created in the image of God (imago Dei), but they have consistently defined that image in ways that exclude people from full humanity. The most well-known definition locates the image in the rational soul, which is constructe…
Christians have traditionally claimed that humans are created in the image of God (imago Dei), but they have consistently defined that image in ways that exclude people from full humanity. The most well-known definition locates the image in the rational soul, which is constructe…
The Stoics, materialism, and the incorporeal -- Spinoza, substance, and attributes -- Nietzsche and Amor Fati -- Deleuze and the plane of immanence -- Simondon and the preindividual -- Ruyer and an embryogenesis of the world
Miracles of Book and Body is the first book to explore the intersection of two key genres of sacred literature in medieval Japan: sutras, or sacred Buddhist texts, and setsuwa, or "explanatory tales," used in sermons and collected in written compilations. For most of East Asia. …
"The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view of the male and female body. These texts do not give detailed physiological descriptions. Instead, they prescribe what to do in the cases of skin disease, delivery and wo/man's genital discharges, but…
This engaging volume sheds light on the central role the turn to the body plays in the philosophies of Spinoza and Nietzsche, providing an ideal starting point for understanding their work. Ioan explores their critiques of traditional morality, as well as their accounts of ethic…
Akram Khan : the creative confusion of the migrating body / Guy Cools -- Whale's tails and rose petals : Tanztheater's souvenir bodies and Butoh's Rwanda / Katherine Mezur -- Hashtag mitimiti : reciprocities of indigenized dance / Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- The interweaving of mo…
