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Bodies of Resistance - New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency and Culture (Hardcover, Second)
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Bodies of Resistance - New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency and Culture (Hardcover, Second)
Series: Philosophy, Literature & Culture
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This startling volume explores the traumas and possibilities of
embodiment as it is lived in a political world. Unveiling the
influence of phenomenology, particularly that of Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, on contemporary thought, Bodies of Resistance: New
Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture cuts across the
disciplines of philosophy, political theory, literature, and
cultural studies to explore anew how we are at once produced by yet
resistant to cultural norms.
Recent theory in the humanities and social sciences has cultivated
a sophisticated understanding of the deep structures of cultural
forces, how our ways of seeing as well as gesturing, dressing,
speaking, and silencing shape a "style" of being in the world. The
essays in this volume add further nuance to this understanding.
But, more fundamentally, they address a prior ontological question:
What is this "being" that is styled? And what is this embodied,
performing subject that can initiate a resistant encounter with
social scripts, whether in prisons, in musical performances, in
discourse, or perhaps even in utero? These essays describe this
resistance in creative phenomenological terms so as to extend our
conceptions of how agency unfolds from and through the body or
bodies. As such, this collection of onto-political meditations will
provoke fresh thinking among a wide range of writers and teachers
in the social sciences and humanities.
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