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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797374403321

Titolo

Carnal Hermeneutics / / Brian Treanor, Richard Kearney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8232-6695-8

0-8232-6592-7

0-8232-6591-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 pages)

Collana

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Classificazione

PHI015000PHI013000PHI016000

Disciplina

128/.6

Soggetti

Hermeneutics

Human body (Philosophy)

PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Wager of Carnal Hermeneutics -- Mind the Gap -- Rethinking Corpus -- From the Limbs of the Heart to the Soul’s Organs -- A Tragedy and a Dream -- Incarnation and the Problem of Touch -- On the Phenomena of Suffering -- Memory, History, Oblivion -- Skin Deep -- Touched by Touching -- Umbilicus -- Getting in Touch -- Between Vision and Touch -- Biodiversity and the Diacritics of Life -- The Passion According to Teresa of Avila -- Refiguring Wounds in the Afterlife (of Trauma) -- This Is My Body -- Original Breath -- On the Flesh of the Word -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes “all the way down,” carnal hermeneutics rejects the opposition of language to sensibility, word to flesh, text to body. In this volume, an



impressive array of today’s preeminent philosophers seek to interpret the surplus of meaning that arises from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world.