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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Frank A. Thomas
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Editor), Gail Weiss (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2003
• EAN: 9780791455999
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5599-9
• No. of pages: 211
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 159 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: SUNY series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art; Suny Aesthetics and the Philos
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries