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Foreign Bodies (Hardcover)
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Foreign Bodies (Hardcover)
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"Foreign Bodies" analyzes how our culture elaborates for us the
bodies we have by natural evolution. Calling on the new means
contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body, Alphonso
Lingis explores forms of power, pleasure and pain, and libidinal
identity.
The book contrasts the findings of theory with the practice of the
body as formulated in quite different kinds of language--the
language of plastic art (the artwork body builders make of
themselves), biography, anthropology and literature. Lingis
explains how we experience our own powers of perception, our
postures, attitudes, gestures and purposive action; how our
susceptibility to pain and excitability by pleasure acquiesce in
and resist the ways they are identified and manipulated today; how
cultures code our sensuality with phallic and with fluid
identities; how others dress appeals to and puts demands on
us.
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