Gail Weiss (ed.)

Perspectives on Embodiment

The Intersections of Nature and Culture
Herausgeber: Weiss, Gail; Haber, Honi Fern

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780415915854
• ISBN-10: 0415915856
• Artikelnr.: 21203164

Autorenporträt

Gail Weiss is Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Ph.D. program in the Human Sciences at The George Washington University. She is the author of Body Images (Routledge 1998). Honi Fern Haber was Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Colorado, Denver. She is the author of Beyond Postmodern Politics (Routledge 1994). She died in 1995.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. Identifying Bodies and Bodily Identifications. one Critical Resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu
two The Soul of America: Whiteness and the Disappearing of Bodies in the Progressive Era
three The Abject Borders of the Body Image
four Claiming One's Identity: A Constructivist/Narrativist Approach
Part 2. Embodied Mind: Phenomenological Approaches to Cognitive Science
Psychology
and Anthropology. five Embodied Reason
six The Challenge of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment for Cognitive Science
seven Affordances: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy
eight Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology Part 3. Rewriting the History of the Body. nine Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism
ten The Epoch of the Body: Need and Demand in Kojève and Lacan
eleven Disciplining the Dead
twelve The Preservation and Ownership of the Body