Book description
The body is at the same time a place where we express duration and/or discontinuity in history, a witness of radical social changes, and a factor of stabilization, but also of the transformation of human life - and therefore an eminent challenge for every human being. This book will contribute in a decisively interdisciplinary and cross-cultural way to a better understanding of the place, role, and connection of the body within social, political, and cultural shifts.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta
- Preface
-
Basic Perspectives
- Sandro Chignola
- Body Factories
- Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
- Self-reference and Sociality
- The Differentiation of “Perceived Body” and “Corpus” in Philosophical Anthropology
- Ariel Wilkis
- Thinking the Body
- Durkheim, Mauss, Bourdieu: The Agreements and Disagreements of a Tradition
- Walter Cenci
- Representation and Scene
- Mimesis and Vertigo of the Body
- Alexandre Roig
- The Headless Body
- Francisco-Hugo Freda
- The Body in Psychoanalysis
- Premodern Aspects
-
Cultural Identities
- Karin Preisendanz
- Between Affirmation and Rejection
- Attitudes towards the Body in Ancient South Asia from the Ṛgveda to Early Classical Medicine
- Achim Mittag
- Body – State – Cosmos
- Random Notes on the Thinking of the Body in China
- Hua Cai
- Belief – Institution – Behavior
- A Comparison of Four Systems of Representation of the Body
-
Gender, Sexuality, and Violence
- Vanesa Vazquez Laba and Cecilia Rugna
- Is My Body My Own?
- Reflecting on the Indeterminate Body and Livable Life
- Paula Sibilia
- The “Pornification” of the Gaze
- A Genealogy of the Nude Breast
- Karina Bidaseca
- Feminicide and the Pedagogy of Violence
- An Essay on Exile, Coloniality and Nature in Third Feminism
- José Antonio Garriga Zucal
- Use and Representations of the Body among Police Officers in the Province of Buenos Aires
- Endnotes
- About the Authors
Product information
- Title: Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2015
- Publisher(s): De Gruyter Oldenbourg
- ISBN: 9783110407471
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