Books > Humanities > Philosophy
|
Buy Now
Word Made Skin - Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,121
Discovery Miles 11 210
|
|
Word Made Skin - Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout
philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what
sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick
up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. But just where, if at all,
do words and bodies touch?In a trio of paired chapters, each
juxtaposing an illustrative story or case study to a theoretical
exploration, MacKendrick examines three somatic figures of speech:
the touch, the fold, and the cut. In the first pairing,
resurrection stories in the Gospel of John are set against a
chapter on touch, which draws on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy to
argue that touch is, paradoxically, the most lasting of the sensory
modes in which the resurrected body is presented. T. S. Eliot's
"Ash Wednesday" is then paired with a Deleuzean meditation on the
fold. The final pair of chapters examines the sacred heart, an
extraordinarily popular Catholic devotional image with an
intriguing set of devotees-medieval mystics, sweet old ladies, and
tattooed punks-in light of theoretical work of Foucault on the idea
of inscribed bodies, of the cut. Theologically and philosophically
sophisticated, indeed masterly, the book never loses its ground in
real, specific bodily experience, performing both at the highest
levels of abstraction and at the most quotidian levels of everyday
life.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.