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Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body
into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity and via
its critique. It draws on dance and performance as its dedicated
field of practice to articulate a philosophy of agency and
movement. It is organized around two conceptual paradigms - one
phenomenological (via Merleau-Ponty), the other an interpretation
of Nietzschean philosophy, mediated through the work of Deleuze.
The book draws on dance studies, cultural critique, ethnography and
postcolonial theory, seeking an interdisciplinary audience in
philosophy, dance and cultural studies.
Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body
into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity and via
its critique. It draws on dance and performance as its dedicated
field of practice to articulate a philosophy of agency and
movement. It is organized around two conceptual paradigms - one
phenomenological (via Merleau-Ponty), the other an interpretation
of Nietzschean philosophy, mediated through the work of Deleuze.
The book draws on dance studies, cultural critique, ethnography and
postcolonial theory, seeking an interdisciplinary audience in
philosophy, dance and cultural studies.
In recent years, there has been extensive analysis of the health
effects of menopause and the safety and efficacy of the various
"treatments". There has also been rising concern about the
appropriation and pathologization of menopause by medicine and its
effects on women. At the same time, however, there has been
relatively little reflection on the social, cultural, philosophical
and ethical issues raised by both menopause itself and the way it
has been handled by medicine. This text brings together a number of
reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism,
cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy and
political science and includes the voices and experiences of
menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays,
current thinking about medicine, society and the body is examined
critically. Particular attention is given to the medical
representations of menopause, biology and ageing, the history of
medical approaches to women and the tensions between bio-medical
models and other explanations of menopause. The issue of hormonal
therapies is explored in the context of the connections between
women, medicine, representation and cultural politic
In recent years, there has been extensive analysis of the health
effects of menopause and the safety and efficacy of the various
"treatments". There has also been rising concern about the
appropriation and pathologization of menopause by medicine and its
effects on women. At the same time, however, there has been
relatively little reflection on the social, cultural, philosophical
and ethical issues raised by both menopause itself and the way it
has been handled by medicine. This text brings together a number of
reflections from a broad range of areas including feminism,
cultural studies, clinical medicine, sociology, philosophy and
political science and includes the voices and experiences of
menopausal women themselves. In an innovative series of essays,
current thinking about medicine, society and the body is examined
critically. Particular attention is given to the medical
representations of menopause, biology and ageing, the history of
medical approaches to women and the tensions between bio-medical
models and other explanations of menopause. The issue of hormonal
therapies is explored in the context of the connections between
women, medicine, representation and cultural politic
Reconciliation: what makes it possible, what impedes it, how to
foster and promote it and how to build the social conditions in
which it can flourish? These are pressing questions for an
increasingly significant concept in community and international
relations. This book is a creative engagement with the central
terms of reconciliation - forgiveness, nationhood, conflict
resolution, justice and memory - and with approaches to questions
of listening and understanding the 'other'. It is premised on the
view that an essential pathway to the achievement of reconciliation
lies in developing and disseminating critical concepts that capture
the nuances of practice. Drawing on fields in the social sciences
and humanities, including post structuralism, hermeneutics,
subaltern studies and social theory, and elaborated in relation to
contemporary sites of conflict and peace-making, this collection
brings together a unique range of perspectives on the complex issue
of reconciliation while offering responses to the key questions
being asked of it today.
This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance
practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen
internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge
our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our
emotions and prejudices, and our sense of public and private space.
In so doing, they offer a multi-layered response to ideas of affect
and emotion, culture and politics, and ultimately, the place of
dance and art itself within society. The chapters in this
collection arise from a number of different political and
historical contexts. By teasing out their detail and situating
dance within them, art is given a political charge. That charge is
informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Gilles
Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Ranciere and Luce Irigaray as well as
their forebears such as Spinoza, Plato and Freud. Taken together,
Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion puts thought into
motion, without forgetting its origins in the social world.
This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance
practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen
internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge
our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our
emotions and prejudices, and our sense of public and private space.
In so doing, they offer a multi-layered response to ideas of affect
and emotion, culture and politics, and ultimately, the place of
dance and art itself within society. The chapters in this
collection arise from a number of different political and
historical contexts. By teasing out their detail and situating
dance within them, art is given a political charge. That charge is
informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Gilles
Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Ranciere and Luce Irigaray as well as
their forebears such as Spinoza, Plato and Freud. Taken together,
Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion puts thought into
motion, without forgetting its origins in the social world.
On Jean Amery provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the
most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Amery
(1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and
literary author. In the English-speaking world Amery is known for
his poignant publication, At the Mind's Limits, a narrative of
exile, dispossession, torture, and Auschwitz. In recent years,
there has been a renewed interest in Amery's writings on
victimization and resentment, partly attributable to a modern
fascination with tolerance, historical injustice, and
reconciliatory ambitions. Many aspects of Amery's writing have
remained largely unexplored outside the realm of European
scholarship, and his legacy in English-language scholarship limited
to discussions of victimization and memory. This volume offers the
first English language collection of academic essays on the
post-Holocaust thought of Jean Amery. Comprehensive in scope and
multi-disciplinary in orientation, contributors explore central
aspects of Amery's philosophical and ethical position, including
dignity, responsibility, resentment, and forgiveness. What emerges
from the pages of this book is an image of Amery as a difficult and
perplexing-yet exceptionally engaging-thinker, whose writings
address some of the central paradoxes of survivorship and
witnessing. The intellectual and ethical questions of Amery's
philosophies are equally pertinent today as they were half-century
ago: How one can reconcile with the irreconcilable? How can one
account for the unaccountable? And, how can one live after
catastrophe?
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