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Perspectives on embodiment : the intersections of nature and culture / edited by Gail Weiss & Honi Fern Haber.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Body image--Congresses.
- Body image.
- Body schema--Congresses.
- Body schema.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Critical Resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu; The Soul of America: Whiteness and the Disappearing of Bodies in the Progressive Era; The Abject Borders of the Body Image; Claiming One's Identity: A Constructivist/Narrativist Approach; Embodied Reason; The Challenge of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment for Cognitive Science; Affordances: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy; Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology; Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism
- The Epoch of the Body: Need and Demand in Kojve and LacanDisciplining the Dead; The Preservation and Ownership of the Body; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Papers "inspired by a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute on embodiment ... held at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1994"--Introd.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781135963989
- 1135963983
- 9781135963996
- 1135963991
- 9780203906491
- 0203906497
- 9780203905258
- 0203905253
- 9781280316975
- 1280316977
- OCLC:
- 560059282
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