Carnal Hermeneutics / / Brian Treanor, Richard Kearney

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 pages)
• Disciplina: 128/.6
• Soggetto topico: Hermeneutics; Human body (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KearneyRichard; TreanorBrian
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Carnal Hermeneutics
• ISBN: 0-8232-6695-8; 0-8232-6592-7; 0-8232-6591-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480475303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Perspectives in continental philosophy.