Read The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)

The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)

Dalia Judovitz

4.9/5 (20725 ratings)

Description:What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical entity to disembodied, mechanical and virtual analogs.The study ranges from Baroque, pre-Cartesian interpretations of body and embodiment, to the Cartesian elaboration of ontological difference and mind-body dualism, and it concludes with the parodic and violent aftermath of this legacy to the French Enlightenment. It engages work by philosophical authors such as Montaigne, Descartes and La Mettrie, as well as literary works by d'Urfé, Corneille and the Marquis de Sade. The examination of sexuality and the emergence of sexual difference as a dominant mode of embodiment are central to the book's overall design. The work is informed by philosophical accounts of the body (Nietzsche, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty), by feminist theory (Butler, Irigaray, Bordo), as well as by literary and cultural historians (Scarry, Stewart, Bynum, etc.) and historians of science (Canguilhem, Pagel, and Temkin), among others. It will appeal to scholars of literature, philosophy, French studies, critical theory, feminist theory, cultural historians and historians of science and technology.Dalia Judovitz is Professor of French, Emory University. She is also author of Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit and Subjectivity and Representation in Decartes: The Origins of Modernity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism). To get started finding The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0472097423

Description: What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical entity to disembodied, mechanical and virtual analogs.The study ranges from Baroque, pre-Cartesian interpretations of body and embodiment, to the Cartesian elaboration of ontological difference and mind-body dualism, and it concludes with the parodic and violent aftermath of this legacy to the French Enlightenment. It engages work by philosophical authors such as Montaigne, Descartes and La Mettrie, as well as literary works by d'Urfé, Corneille and the Marquis de Sade. The examination of sexuality and the emergence of sexual difference as a dominant mode of embodiment are central to the book's overall design. The work is informed by philosophical accounts of the body (Nietzsche, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty), by feminist theory (Butler, Irigaray, Bordo), as well as by literary and cultural historians (Scarry, Stewart, Bynum, etc.) and historians of science (Canguilhem, Pagel, and Temkin), among others. It will appeal to scholars of literature, philosophy, French studies, critical theory, feminist theory, cultural historians and historians of science and technology.Dalia Judovitz is Professor of French, Emory University. She is also author of Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit and Subjectivity and Representation in Decartes: The Origins of Modernity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism). To get started finding The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)

The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)

More Books

[(Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company )] [Author: Dalia Judovitz] [Mar-2010]

[(Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company )] [Author: Dalia Judovitz] [Mar-2010]

Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company

Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company

Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit

Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit

Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit by Dalia Judovitz (1995-11-08)

Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit by Dalia Judovitz (1995-11-08)

[The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)] [Author: Dalia Judovitz] [March, 2001]

[The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)] [Author: Dalia Judovitz] [March, 2001]

Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 23)

Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 23)

Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible

Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible

Déplier Duchamp - passages de l'art

Déplier Duchamp - passages de l'art

Sade and the Narrative of Transgression (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 52)

Sade and the Narrative of Transgression (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 52)