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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life : Studies in intercultural and historical contexts / Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology ; 2Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (251 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110407310
  • 9783110407471
  • 9783110407389
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128 23
LOC classification:
  • B105.B64 T555 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Body Factories -- Self-reference and Sociality -- Thinking the Body -- Representation and Scene -- The Headless Body -- The Body in Psychoanalysis -- The Body between Creation, Fall, Death, and Resurrection -- Thinking the Body in the Middle Ages -- Between Affirmation and Rejection -- Body – State – Cosmos -- Belief – Institution – Behavior -- Is My Body My Own? -- The “Pornification” of the Gaze -- Feminicide and the Pedagogy of Violence -- Use and Representations of the Body among Police Officers in the Province of Buenos Aires -- About the Authors
Summary: Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Body Factories -- Self-reference and Sociality -- Thinking the Body -- Representation and Scene -- The Headless Body -- The Body in Psychoanalysis -- The Body between Creation, Fall, Death, and Resurrection -- Thinking the Body in the Middle Ages -- Between Affirmation and Rejection -- Body – State – Cosmos -- Belief – Institution – Behavior -- Is My Body My Own? -- The “Pornification” of the Gaze -- Feminicide and the Pedagogy of Violence -- Use and Representations of the Body among Police Officers in the Province of Buenos Aires -- About the Authors

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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