Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life : studies in intercultural and historical contexts / / edited by Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta ; editorial manager, Laura S. Carugati

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797570803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 3-11-040738-8; 3-11-040747-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Collana: Challenges of life ; ; volume 2
• Classificazione: CC 6600
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetti: Human body (Philosophy)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Body Factories -- Self-reference and Sociality -- Thinking the Body -- Representation and Scene -- The Headless Body -- The Body in Psychoanalysis -- The Body between Creation, Fall, Death, and Resurrection -- Thinking the Body in the Middle Ages -- Between Affirmation and Rejection -- Body – State – Cosmos -- Belief – Institution – Behavior -- Is My Body My Own? -- The “Pornification” of the Gaze -- Feminicide and the Pedagogy of Violence -- Use and Representations of the Body among Police Officers in the Province of Buenos Aires -- About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: The body is at the same time a place where we express duration and/or discontinuity in history, a witness of radical social changes, and a factor of stabilization, but also of the transformation of human life - and therefore an eminent challenge for every human being. This book will contribute in a decisively interdisciplinary and cross-cultural way to a better understanding of the place, role, and connection of the body within social, political, and cultural shifts.