Alphonso Lingis

Foreign Bodies (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Foreign Bodies analyzes how our culture elaborates for us the bodies we have by natural evolution. Calling on the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body, Alphonso Lingis explores forms of power, pleasure and pain, and libidinal identity.
The book contrasts the findings of theory with the practice of the body as formulated in quite different kinds of language--the language of plastic art (the artwork body builders make of themselves), biography, anthropology and literature. Lingis explains how we experience our own powers of perception, our postures, attitudes, gestures and purposive action; how our susceptibility to pain and excitability by pleasure acquiesce in and resist the ways they are identified and manipulated today; how cultures code our sensuality with phallic and with fluid identities; how others dress appeals to and puts demands on us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317972624
• Artikelnr.: 41067468

Autorenporträt

Alphonso Lingis is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part one The Force of the Body
Chapter 1 The Competent Body
Chapter 2 Orchids and Muscles
Chapter 3 Bodies Our Own
Part two The Pleasure and the Pain
Chapter 4 The Subjectification of the Body
Chapter 5 The Insistence on Correspondence
Chapter 6 These Alien Feelings That Are Our Own
Part three The Libidinal Economy
Chapter 7 Hard Currency
Chapter 8 Fluid Economy
Chapter 9 Strange Lusts That Are Our Own
Part four Imperative Bodies
Chapter 10 Imperative Surfaces
Chapter 11 Elemental Bodies
Chapter 12 Foreign Bodies