Living across and through skins [[electronic resource] ] : transactional bodies, pragmatism, and feminism

• Autore: Sullivan Shannon <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 128/.6; 306.4
• Soggetto topico: Body, Human (Philosophy); Human body (Philosophy); Ecology; Pragmatism; Feminist theory; Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: Transactional Bodies after Dewey; ONE: Living Across and Through Skins, Bodies in Transaction; TWO: Discursivity and Materiality, The Lived Experience of Transactional Bodies; THREE: Communicating with Another Transaction and Merleau-Ponty 's Phenomenology of Corporeal Existence; FOUR: Reconfiguring Gender - Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change; FIVE: Transactional Somaesthetics - Nietzsche, Women, and the Transformation of Bodily Experience; SIX: Transactional Knowing - Toward a Pragmatist-Feminist Standpoint Theory ; CONCLUSION: Transaction and the Dynamic Distinctiveness of RacesNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them.What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not new. Early in the 20th century, John Dewey elaborated human existence as a set of patterns of behavior or actions shaped by the environment. Underscoring the continued relevance of his thought, Sullivan brings
• Titolo autorizzato: Living across and through skins
• ISBN: 1-282-06297-2; 0-253-10911-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813326803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II