Perspectives on embodiment the intersections of nature and culture

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Weiss, Gail, 1959- (-), Haber, Honi Fern, 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge 1999.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798054406719
Table of 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