Perspectives on Embodiment

The Intersections of Nature and Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-91585-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 625 g

Perspectives on Embodiment offers multiple ways of conceptualizing human corporeality. These essays collectively defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects. A central premise of this collection is that a variety of perspectives is needed to illuminate the fluid, ever-changing features of human corporeality. This book not only explores what it means to be an embodied subject, but also encourages speculation about our future bodily incarnations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiss, Gail

Haber, Honi Fern

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1. Identifying Bodies and Bodily Identifications. one Critical Resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu, two The Soul of America: Whiteness and the Disappearing of Bodies in the Progressive Era, three The Abject Borders of the Body Image, four Claiming One’s Identity: A Constructivist/Narrativist Approach, Part 2. Embodied Mind: Phenomenological Approaches to Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Anthropology. five Embodied Reason, six The Challenge of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Embodiment for Cognitive Science, seven Affordances: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy, eight Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology Part 3. Rewriting the History of the Body. nine Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism, ten The Epoch of the Body: Need and Demand in Kojève and Lacan, eleven Disciplining the Dead, twelve The Preservation and Ownership of the Body

Über Autor(innen)

Gail Weiss is Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Ph.D. program in the Human Sciences at The George Washington University. She is the author of Body Images (Routledge 1998). Honi Fern Haber was Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Colorado, Denver. She is the author of Beyond Postmodern Politics (Routledge 1994). She died in 1995.