Plastic bodies : rebuilding sensation after phenomenology / Tom Sparrow ; with a foreword by Catherine Malabou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sparrow, Tom, 1979- author.

Contributor:

Malabou, Catherine, writer of foreword.

Series:

New metaphysics.

New Metaphysics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Senses and sensation.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Open Humanities Press 2015

London : Open Humanities Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as enemies in nearly every camp from empiricism to poststructuralism. Polyvalent, with an uncertain referent, and often overshadowed by intuition, perception, or cognition, sensation invites as much metaphysical speculation as it does dismissive criticism. The promise of sensation has certainly not been lost on the phenomenologists who have sought to 'rehabilitate' the concept. In Plastic Bodies, Tom Sparrow argues that the phenomenologists have not gone far enough, however. Alongside close readings of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, he digs into an array of ancient, modern, and contemporary texts in search of the resources needed to rebuild the concept of sensation after phenomenology. He begins to assemble a speculative aesthetics that is at once a realist theory of sensation and a philosophy of embodiment that breaks the form of the 'lived' body. Maintaining that the body is fundamentally plastic and that corporeal identity is constituted by a conspiracy of sensations, he pursues the question of how the body fits into/fails to fit into its aesthetic environment and what must be done to increase the body’s power to act and exist.

Contents:

Foreword: After the flesh / by Catherine Malabou

Introduction

Post-dualist embodiment, with some theses on sensation

Synchronic bodies and environmental orientation

Perception, sensation, and the problem of violence

Sensibility, susceptibility, and the genesis of individuals

On aesthetic plasticity

Conclusion: Plasticity and power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (oapen, viewed Jun. 8, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version.

ISBN:

9781785420214

OCLC:

945782901

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_530970

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access