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Bodyworks
Essays on Modernity and Morality
2024
Hampton Press (Verlag)
978-1-57273-392-3 (ISBN)
Hampton Press (Verlag)
978-1-57273-392-3 (ISBN)
An examination of such institutional sites as the media, literature, art, psychoanalysis and medicine, and cultural practices around disease, death and sexuality. It raises questions regarding conventions in the humanities and social sciences - life/death, good/bad, male/female, and more.
In this volume such institutional sites as the media, literature, art, psychoanalysis, and medicine, and cultural practices around disease, death and sexuality are examined. In the introduction the author sets out basic claims for the embodied grounds of communication and the civillzing process and the long history of the inside/outside body. The following chapters raise questions regarding critical conventions in the humanities and social sciences - life/death, good/bad, right/left, rational/sensate, male/female, and nature/culture.
In this volume such institutional sites as the media, literature, art, psychoanalysis, and medicine, and cultural practices around disease, death and sexuality are examined. In the introduction the author sets out basic claims for the embodied grounds of communication and the civillzing process and the long history of the inside/outside body. The following chapters raise questions regarding critical conventions in the humanities and social sciences - life/death, good/bad, right/left, rational/sensate, male/female, and nature/culture.
Introduction: Making Bodies. Two Body Criticism. Renaissances Arts of Aging and Dying. Woman, Nature and Culture: Structure and Difference. The Posthumous Text: Foucault's Autopsy. Bio-technocracy. Horror Autotoxicus: The Dual Economy of AIDS. Two Cartographies of HIV/AIDS. Eating American. (No) Smoking. The Awesome Body of Culture. Only a Body. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.5.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | references, indices |
Verlagsort | Cresskill |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 333 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-57273-392-6 / 1572733926 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-57273-392-3 / 9781572733923 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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