Tattoos [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy for everyone : I ink, therefore I am / / edited by Robert Arp

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 190; 391.6/5; 391.65
• Soggetto topico: Tattooing; Philosophy
• Classificazione: PHI000000
• Altri autori: ArpRobert
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TATTOOS - PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE: I Ink, Therefore I Am; CONTENTS; I Ink, Therefore I Foreword; I Am, Therefore I Ink: An Introduction to Tattoos - Philosophy for Everyone: I Ink, Therefore I Am; Acknowledgments; SHEET I THE HISTORY AND NATURE OF TATTOOS; 1 Tattoos and the Tattooing Arts in Perspective: An Overview and Some Preliminary Observations; 2 How to Read a Tattoo, and Other Perilous Quests; SHEET II TATTOOS AND ART; 3 Are Tattoos Art?; 4 Fleshy Canvas: The Aesthetics of Tattoos from Feminist and Hermeneutical Perspectives; SHEET III THE TATTOOED WOMAN; 5 Female Tattoos and Graffiti ; 6 Painted Fetters: Tattooing as Feminist LiberationSHEET IV PERSONAL IDENTITY; 7 Tattoo You: Personal Identity in Ink; 8 Illusions of Permanence: Tattoos and the Temporary Self; 9 My Tattoo May Be Permanent, But My Memory of It Isn't; SHEET V EXPRESSIONS OF FREEDOM; 10 Tattoos are Forever: Bodily Freedom and the (Im)possibility of Change; 11 Bearing the Marks: How Tattoos Reveal Our Embodied Freedom; SHEET VI EXPERIENCES AND STORIES SURROUNDING TATTOOS; 12 Never Merely 'There': Tattooing as a Practice of Writing and a Telling of Stories ; 13 Something Terribly Flawed: Philosophy and 'The Illustrated Man'SHEET VII ETHICAL CONCERNS; 14 The Vice of the Tough Tattoo; 15 To Ink, or Not To Ink: Tattoos and Bioethics; 16 Writing on the Body: The Modern Morality of the Tattoo; SHEET VIII EASTERN AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES; 17 Is a Tattoo a Sign of Impiety?; 18 Confessions of a Tattooed Buddhist Philosopher; 19 An Atheist and a Theist Discuss a Cross Tattoo and God's Existence; Notes on Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Covering philosophical issues ranging from tattooed religious symbols to a feminist aesthetics of tattoo, Tattoos and Philosophy offers an enthusiastic analysis of inking that will lead readers to consider the nature of the tattooing arts in a new and profound way. Contains chapters written by philosophers (most all with tattoos themselves), tattoo artists, and tattoo enthusiasts that touch upon many areas in Western and Eastern philosophyEnlightens people to the nature of tattoos and the tattooing arts, leading readers to think deeply about tattoos in new ways
• Titolo autorizzato: Tattoos
• ISBN: 1-280-58748-2; 9786613617316; 1-118-25274-8; 1-118-25278-0; 1-118-25277-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830745303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophy for everyone ; ; 50.