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- Thinking the Limits of the Body
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (discontinued)
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. vii
- PART I: HORIZONS
- 2. The Body as a Narrative Horizon
- pp. 25-35
- PART II: DERMAL BOUNDARIES
- 3. Cutups in Beauty School
- pp. 39-62
- 4. Deep Skin
- pp. 63-82
- PART III: RACIAL EDGES
- PART IV: DIS-ABLING ALLIANCES
- PART V: LIMINALITIES
- 9. The Inhuman Circuit
- pp. 167-186
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- pp. 197-198
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791487471
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
55939300
Pages
211
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No