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- Carnal Hermeneutics
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
summary
Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern.Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes “all the way down,” carnal hermeneutics rejects the opposition of language to sensibility, word to flesh, text to body.In this volume, an impressive array of today’s preeminent philosophers seek to interpret the surplus of meaning that arises from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Why Carnal Hermeneutics?
- 1 The Wager of Carnal Hermeneutics
- pp. 15-56
- 2 Mind the Gap
- pp. 57-74
- Rethinking the Flesh
- 3 Rethinking Corpus
- pp. 77-91
- 5 A Tragedy and a Dream
- pp. 115-127
- 6 Incarnation and the Problem of Touch
- pp. 128-144
- 7 On the Phenomena of Suffering
- pp. 145-147
- 8 Memory, History, Oblivion
- pp. 148-156
- Matters of Touch
- 9 Skin Deep
- pp. 159-172
- 10 Touched by Touching
- pp. 173-181
- 11 Umbilicus
- pp. 182-194
- 12 Getting in Touch
- pp. 195-213
- 13 Between Vision and Touch
- pp. 214-234
- 14 Biodiversity and the Diacritics of Life
- pp. 235-248
- Divine Bodies
- 15 The Passion According to Teresa of Avila
- pp. 251-262
- 17 This Is My Body
- pp. 279-294
- 18 Original Breath
- pp. 295-305
- 19 On the Flesh of the Word
- pp. 306-316
- Contributors
- pp. 381-384
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823265923
Related ISBN(s)
9780823265886
MARC Record
OCLC
914229947
Pages
400
Launched on MUSE
2015-10-26
Language
English
Open Access
No