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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 128/.6
• Soggetto topico: Body image; Body schema
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HaberHoni Fern <1958-> WeissGail <1959->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Perspectives on embodiment
• ISBN: 1-135-96399-1; 0-203-90649-7; 0-203-90525-3; 1-280-31697-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450964503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II