Thinking the Limits of the Body

This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gail Weiss is Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the George Washington University. She is the coeditor (with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen) of Thinking the Limits of the Body, also published by SUNY Press, and (with Dorothea Olkowski) of Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Frank A. Thomas
• Mitarbeit: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Herausgeber), Cohen Jeffrey Jerome (Herausgeber), Gail Weiss (Herausgeber), Weiss Gail (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.01.2003
• EAN: 9780791455999
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5599-9
• Seiten: 211
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 408 g
• Serien: SUNY series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art; Suny Aesthetics and the Philos
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General