Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and FeminismIndiana University Press, 2001 M03 22 - 224 páginas Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them. What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not new. Early in the 20th century, John Dewey elaborated human existence as a set of patterns of behavior or actions shaped by the environment. Underscoring the continued relevance of his thought, Sullivan brings Dewey into conversation with Continental philosophers -- Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty -- and feminist philosophers -- Butler and Harding -- to expand thinking about the body. Emphasizing topics such as the role of habit, the discursivity of bodies, communication and meaning, personal and cultural structures of gender, the improvement of bodily experience, and understandings of truth and objectivity, Living Across and Through Skins acknowledges the importance of the body's experience without placing it in opposition to psychological, cultural, and social aspects of human life. By focusing on what bodies do, rather than what they are, Sullivan prompts a closer look at concrete, physical transactions that might be changed to improve human experiences of the world. |
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... Corporeal Existence 65 four Recon¤guring Gender: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change 88 five Contents Transactional Somaesthetics: Nietzsche, Women, and the Transformation of TOC.
... corporeal existence as transactional and explores some of the social, political, ethical, and epistemological implications of transactional bodies by engaging various pragmatist, feminist, genealogical, and phenomenological philosophers ...
... corporeal existence. As is the case with all theories, however, and especially with theories about bodies, it is crucial that after abstracting away from the complexity and messiness of bodies, one return theory to concrete bodily life ...
... corporeal habit. Dewey's pragmatism constitutes a central thread in the re®ections on and arguments concerning transactional bodies presented here. For this reason, my approach to corporeal existence could be characterized as pragmatist ...
... corporeal existence as I engage the work of feminist, genealogical, and phenomenological philosophy, particularly that of Carol Bigwood, Susan Bordo, Judith Butler, Eugene Gendlin, Sandra Harding, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Friedrich ...
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The Lived Experience of Transactional Bodies | 41 |
Transaction and MerleauPontys Phenomenology of Corporeal Existence | 65 |
Habit Bodies and Cultural Change | 88 |
Nietzsche Women and the Transformation of Bodily Experience | 111 |
Toward a PragmatistFeminist Standpoint Theory | 133 |
Transaction and the Dynamic Distinctiveness of Races | 157 |
notes | 171 |
bibliography | 193 |
index | 201 |
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Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism Shannon Sullivan Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism Shannon Sullivan Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism Shannon Sullivan Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |