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."
General
Imprint: |
Indiana University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2001 |
First published: |
March 2001 |
Authors: |
Shannon Sullivan
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-253-21440-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
0-253-21440-8 |
Barcode: |
9780253214409 |
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