1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003101190403321

Titolo

Inflation : Economy and Society : Twelve Papers by Economists, Businessmen and Politicians on Causes, Consequences, Cures / Lord Robbins...[et al.].

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Institute of Economic Affairs, 1972

ISBN

255-36035-5

Edizione

[1. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

IX, 136 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

IEA readings ; 14

Disciplina

J/1.52

Locazione

SES

DECTS

Collocazione

A/71 IEA

E3.145

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779825903321

Autore

Sullivan Shannon <1967->

Titolo

Living across and through skins [[electronic resource] ] : transactional bodies, pragmatism, and feminism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-282-06297-2

0-253-10911-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

128/.6

306.4

Soggetti

Body, Human (Philosophy)

Human body (Philosophy)

Ecology

Pragmatism

Feminist theory

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: Transactional Bodies after Dewey; ONE:  Living Across and Through Skins, Bodies in Transaction; TWO: Discursivity and Materiality, The Lived Experience of Transactional Bodies; THREE: Communicating with Another Transaction and Merleau-Ponty 's Phenomenology of Corporeal Existence; FOUR: Reconfiguring Gender - Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change; FIVE: Transactional Somaesthetics - Nietzsche, Women, and the Transformation of Bodily Experience; SIX: Transactional Knowing - Toward a Pragmatist-Feminist Standpoint Theory

CONCLUSION: Transaction and the Dynamic Distinctiveness of RacesNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them.What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies



in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not new. Early in the 20th century, John Dewey elaborated human existence as a set of patterns of behavior or actions shaped by the environment. Underscoring the continued relevance of his thought, Sullivan brings