Foreign Bodies
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-97262-4
- EAN: 9781317972624
- Produktnummer: 16997204
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 30'149 KB
Über den Autor
Alphonso Lingis is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.
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