Biographical note: Arno Böhler (Univ.-Doz. Dr. habil.) lehrt Philosophie an der Universität Wien. Krassimira Kruschkova (Univ.-Doz. Dr. habil.) ist Leiterin des Theoriezentrums am Tanzquartier Wien und lehrt an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien. Susanne Granzer alias Sus…
Long description: Die Frage>>Wissen wir, was ein Körper vermag?<<ist für Spinozas Ethik zentral, weil sie die leibliche Fundierung geistiger Tätigkeiten in den Blick kommen lässt. Immer wieder fragt er seine philosophischen Gegner, wie sich die>>schlafwandlerische Kreativität<<d…
Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated topic. Hans Boersma argues that this-worldly realities of time and space, which include embodiment, are not the focus of Gregory's theology. Instead, embodiment plays a distinctly subordinate role. The key to his t…
"In Physicalist Soteriology in Hilary of Poitiers, Ellen Scully presents Hilary as a representative of the 'mystical' or 'physical' trajectory of patristic soteriology most often associated with the Greek fathers. Scully shows that Hilary’s physicalism is unique, both in its Lat…
"This volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The authors explore various aspects of manifestations of the female principle within the literature of the Ancient Near East, Early Judaism, and the nascent Ch…
"This volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The authors explore various aspects of manifestations of the female principle within the literature of the Ancient Near East, Early Judaism, and the nascent Ch…
"This volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The authors explore various aspects of manifestations of the female principle within the literature of the Ancient Near East, Early Judaism, and the nascent Ch…
The body in theory: essays after Lacan and Foucault
""The body has always had the potential to unsettle us with its strange exigencies and suppurations, its demands and desires, and thus throughout the ages, it has continued to be a subject of interest and obsession. This collection of twelve peer-reviewed essays on Jacques Lacan…
"Perfect for use at advanced undergraduate and graduate level, this is the first text to offer students a unified narrative regarding the place of the body in Western thinking. The book investigates the ways in which the fact of human embodiment makes the notion of ambiguity cen…
The essays in this volume all ask what it means for human beings to be embodied as desiring creatures-and perhaps still more piercingly, what it means for a philosopher to be embodied. In taking up this challenge via phenomenology, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the philosoph…
'Physical Theatres' features extracts from primary texts by key practitioners of physical theatre - a term covering various forms of non-text-based theatre, ranging from experimental and visually-orientated performance to mime and masked theatre.--Publisher description.
'Physical Theatres' features extracts from primary texts by key practitioners of physical theatre - a term covering various forms of non-text-based theatre, ranging from experimental and visually-orientated performance to mime and masked theatre.--Publisher description.
