| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages) : portrait |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Papers "inspired by a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute on embodiment ... held at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1994"--Introduction. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Identifying bodies and bodily identification. Critical resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu / David Couzens -- The soul of America: whiteness and the disappearing of bodies in the progressive era / Tracy Fessenden -- The abject borders of the body image / Gail Weiss -- Claiming one's identity: a constructivist/narrativist approach / Sean P. O'Connell -- pt. 2. Embodied mind: phenomenological approaches to cognitive science, psychology, and anthropology. Embodies reason / Mark L. Johnson -- The challenge of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment for cognitive science / Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus --Affordance: an ecological approach to first philosophy / John T. Sanders --Embodiment and cultural phenomenology / Thomas J. Csordas -- pt. 3. Rewriting the history of the body. Returning the gaze: the American response to the French critique of ocularcentrism / Martin Jay -- The epoch of the body: need and demand in Kojeve and Lacan / Charles Shepherdson -- Disciplining the dead / Kevin O'Neill -- The preservation and ownership of the body / Thomas F. Tierney. |
| Summary |
A collection of essays from contributors including Martin Jay, Hubert Dreyfus and David Hoy, this text offers a look at the ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Body image -- Congresses.
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Body image. |
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Body schema -- Congresses.
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Body schema. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Weiss, Gail, 1959-
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Haber, Honi Fern, 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Perspectives on embodiment. New York : Routledge, 1999 0415915856 (DLC) 98022730 (OCoLC)39042921 |
| ISBN |
0203906497 (electronic book) |
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9780203906491 (electronic book) |
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0203905253 (electronic book) |
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9780203905258 (electronic book) |
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9780415915854 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0415915856 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780415915861 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0415915864 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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