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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... term “transaction” from American philosopher John Dewey and, following him, use it to indicate the dynamic, co-constitutive relationship of organisms and their environments. The term “interaction” suggests two independently constituted ...
... to have complex and multiple meanings, which on Dewey's terms constitute “mind,” undercuts mind–body dualism without positing a monism of either body or mind. Introduction Indeed, thinking of bodies as constituted by habit avoids 3.
... term “pragmatist feminism.” To me it does not mean that a theorization of bodies must discuss and draw from pragmatist and feminist philosophers alone. Readers should not expect this book to be solely on or about Dewey. While Dewey ...
... term “genealogical-phenomenological-pragmatist- feminist” might better describe my approach. Aside from unwieldiness of this term, however, using it is unnecessary because of pragmatism's pluralism. Just as feminism encourages cross ...
... term to apply to, represent, or be a metaphor for economic exchange. To begin, some detailed explanation of what Dewey means by transaction is needed. It is no exaggeration to claim that the concept of transaction is key to every aspect ...
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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 |