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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... dualisms between subject and object, and self and world, as well as a rejection of the atomistic, compartmentalized conceptions of the subject and self that often accompany such dualisms. The boundaries that delimit individual entities ...
... dualism with respect to bodies. If bodies are transactionally constituted, then bodies are not lumps of passive matter imprinted with signi¤cance and meaning by an active culture. Nor are bodies sealed off from culture such that, at ...
... dualism between demonized humans and a romanticized nonhuman nature.2 Thinking of bodies as transactional means thinking of bodies and their environments in a permeable, dynamic relationship in which culture does not just effect bodies ...
... dualistic or not. By focusing on bodies as activities, one can turn one's attention to what is it is that bodies, in conjunction with their environments, do. For example, conceiving of bodies as activities focuses on bodies' walking ...
... dualism of organism and environment—or, of humans in particular, self and world—and its rejection of the atomism that accompanies such a dualism. Two notions are es- pecially important to an understanding of bodies as transactional: the ...
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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 |