Embodiments : From the Body to the Body Politic / James R. Mensch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mensch, James R.

Series:

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty.

Sovereignty.

Human body--Political aspects.

Human body.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 190 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment?To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a methodology consistent with the fact of our embodiment; he uses Merleau-Ponty's concept of "intertwining"--the presence of one's self in the world and of the world in one's self--to understand the ideas that.

Contents:

The intertwining: the recursion of the seer and the seen

Artificial intelligence and the phenomenology of flesh

Aesthetic education and the project of being human

The intertwining of incommensurables: Yann Martel's life of Pi

Flesh and the limits of self-making

Violence and embodiment

Excessive presence and the image

Politics and freedom

Sovereignty and alterity

Political violence

Public space

Sustaining the other: tolerance as a positive ideal

Forgiveness and incarnation.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-8101-6367-5

OCLC:

794701028