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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819409003321

Titolo

Perspectives on embodiment : the intersections of nature and culture / / edited by Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-135-96398-3

1-135-96399-1

0-203-90649-7

0-203-90525-3

1-280-31697-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HaberHoni Fern <1958->

WeissGail <1959->

Disciplina

128/.6

Soggetti

Body image

Body schema

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers "inspired by a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute on embodiment. held at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1994"--Introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Critical Resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu; The Soul of America: Whiteness and the Disappearing of Bodies in the Progressive Era; The Abject Borders of the Body Image; Claiming One's Identity: A Constructivist/Narrativist Approach; Embodied Reason; The Challenge of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment for Cognitive Science; Affordances: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy; Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology; Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism

The Epoch of the Body: Need and Demand in Kojve and LacanDisciplining the Dead; The Preservation and Ownership of the Body; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects.