Poetics of the Flesh

Informationen zum Autor Mayra Rivera is Associate Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God. Klappentext In Poetics of the Flesh Mayra Rivera offers poetic reflections on how we understand our carnal relationship to the world! at once spiritual! organic! and social. She connects conversations about corporeality in theology! political theory! and continental philosophy to show the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and modern Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh." Her readings of the biblical writings of John and Paul as well as the work of Tertullian illustrate how Christian ideas of flesh influenced the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault! and inform her readings of Judith Butler! Frantz Fanon! and others. Rivera also furthers developments in new materialism by exploring the intersections among bodies! material elements! social arrangements! and discourses through body and flesh. By painting a complex picture of bodies! and by developing an account of how the social materializes in flesh! Rivera provides a new way to understand gender and race. Zusammenfassung Mayra Rivera outlines the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh." Rivera's analysis furthers developments in new materialism and helps us to better understand the influence of Christian texts on contemporary theorizations of social structure! gender! race! and faith. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  vii Introduction. Both Flesh and Not  1 Part I: Regarding Christian Bodies  15 1. Becoming Flesh: The Gospel of John  19 2. Abandoning Flesh: The Letters of Paul  29 3. Embracing Flesh: Tertullian  43 Part II: The Philosophers' (Christian) Flesh  55 4. Incarnate Philosophy  59 5. The Ends of Flesh  87 Part III: A Labyrinth of Incarnations  111 6. Inescapable Bodies  117 7. Carnal Relations  133 Conclusion  153 Notes  159 Bibliography  193 Index  203...

Product details

• Authors: Mayra Rivera
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780822360131
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6013-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works