书名: Thinking the Limits of the Body (SUNY Series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art)
作者: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Editor), Gail Weiss (Editor)
出版社: State University of New York Press (January 2003)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0791455998
ISBN-13: 978-0791455999
Book Description
Shows the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in discussions of the body.
This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.
Review
"Thinking the Limits of the Body is a smart, well-organized, well-paced collection that brings together work by a number of recognized and accomplished scholars. In considering those places where, as Cohen and Weiss put it, 'the body becomes a problem and ceases to be a bounded object,' the contributors examine the status of the body by examining its particularity at extremes (enslaved, cadaverous, in cannibalism and theophagy, in plastic surgery undertaken as performance) and in dailiness (in disability, in articulation by sensory experience, in the novel); and these examinations revise the ways in which we think about narrative, autonomy, the status of the human, and the relations between minority identities." -- Mary Ann O'Farrell, coeditor of Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment
Contributors include Debra Bergoffen, Sara Castro-Klaren, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, William A. Cohen, Laura Doyle, Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Elizabeth Grosz, Linda Kauffman, Robert McRuer, and Gail Weiss.
About the Author
At The George Washington University, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Associate Professor of English and Human Sciences and Gail Weiss is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Human Sciences Program. Cohen is the author of Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages. Weiss is the author of Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality and coeditor (with Honi Fern Haber) of Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture.
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作者: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Editor), Gail Weiss (Editor)
出版社: State University of New York Press (January 2003)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0791455998
ISBN-13: 978-0791455999
Book Description
Shows the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in discussions of the body.
This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.
Review
"Thinking the Limits of the Body is a smart, well-organized, well-paced collection that brings together work by a number of recognized and accomplished scholars. In considering those places where, as Cohen and Weiss put it, 'the body becomes a problem and ceases to be a bounded object,' the contributors examine the status of the body by examining its particularity at extremes (enslaved, cadaverous, in cannibalism and theophagy, in plastic surgery undertaken as performance) and in dailiness (in disability, in articulation by sensory experience, in the novel); and these examinations revise the ways in which we think about narrative, autonomy, the status of the human, and the relations between minority identities." -- Mary Ann O'Farrell, coeditor of Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment
Contributors include Debra Bergoffen, Sara Castro-Klaren, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, William A. Cohen, Laura Doyle, Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Elizabeth Grosz, Linda Kauffman, Robert McRuer, and Gail Weiss.
About the Author
At The George Washington University, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Associate Professor of English and Human Sciences and Gail Weiss is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Human Sciences Program. Cohen is the author of Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages. Weiss is the author of Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality and coeditor (with Honi Fern Haber) of Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture.
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