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Author : David McNally
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791447367
Challenges postmodernist theories of language and politics which detach language from human bodies and their material practices.
Author : David McNally
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791491782
Bodies of Meaning presents a vigorous challenge to postmodernist theories of language and politics which detach language from human bodies and their material practices. Beginning with the 'historical bodies' theorized by Marx, Darwin, and Freud, McNally develops an alternative account of language which draws on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin and recent contributions to materialist feminism. In bringing the body back into language, this book makes a major contribution to current debates in social and political theory.
Author : Heike Peckruhn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190280932
Movement, smell, vision, and other perceptual experiences are ways of thinking and orienting ourselves in the world and are increasingly recognized as important resources for theology. In Meaning in Our Bodies, Heike Peckruhn seeks to discover how embodied differences like gender, race, disability, and sexuality connect to perceptual experience and theological imagination. Peckruhn offers historical and cultural comparisons, showing how sensory experience can order normalcy, social status, and communal belonging. She argues that scholars who appeal to the importance of bodily experiences need to acquire a robust and nuanced understanding of how sensory perceptions and interactions are cultural and theological acts of making meaning. This is a critical volume for feminist theorists and theologians, critical race theorists, scholars of disability and embodiment, and liberation thinkers who take experiences seriously as sources for theologizing and religious analysis.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3825871541
Bodies move, and they express. There is a body language, and there is a language employed to refer to the body, its parts, and the states of its being. Consciously and unconsciously people judge each other according to body and clothing behavior. What one thinks one expresses is not necessarily how one is seen and judged, and the variety of observations made of the body is diverse. Bodily behavior and interpretations of this behavior face change at frontiers of culture areas, or when cultures meet each other as a result of migration. This book addresses and expands upon these issues. Soheila Shahshahani teaches at the Shahid Beheshti University, Teheran, Iran.
Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226026992
In The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By. Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates meaning even before self-consciousness has fully developed. From there he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily origins of meaning, thought, and language and examines the many dimensions of meaning—including images, qualities, emotions, and metaphors—that are all rooted in the body’s physical encounters with the world. Drawing on the psychology of art and pragmatist philosophy, Johnson argues that all of these aspects of meaning-making are fundamentally aesthetic. He concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources. Throughout, Johnson puts forth a bold new conception of the mind rooted in the understanding that philosophy will matter to nonphilosophers only if it is built on a visceral connection to the world. “Mark Johnson demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are fundamental—central to conceptual meaning and reason, and that the arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization. If you were raised with the idea that art and emotion were external to ideas and reason, you must read this book. It grounds philosophy in our most visceral experience.”—George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics
Author : Dominic Montserrat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134778850
First Published in 2004. The seventeenth-century physician John Bulwer’s book, better known by its neologistic classical title Anthropometamorphosis, ‘humanitychanging’, provided the inspiration for a conference held in the Classics Department at Warwick University in April 1994. The papers delivered there are the nucleus of this collection.
Author : Jane Desmond
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 082231942X
On dance and culture
Author : Erin M. Goss
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611483956
Revealing Bodies considers three thinkers not often read together, in order to ask a question: how is it that we claim to know the body? This book explores a question with wide-ranging stakes both for those with specialized interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture and with a broader interest in bodily representation.
Author : James R. Martel
Publisher : Amherst College Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781943208104
Title on title page verso and throughout the book is "Unburied Bodies."
Author : James Saunders
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Comedy
ISBN : 0822201291
THE STORY: As the play begins, Anne and Mervyn, a seemingly well-settled middle-aged couple, are awaiting the arrival of Helen and David, a younger couple who were formerly their neighbors and close friends. Their reunion begins on a light and humo
Author : George Yancy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742571723
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race understands Black embodiment within the context of white hegemony within the context of a racist, anti-Black world. Yancy demonstrates that the Black body is a historically lived text on which whites have inscribed their projections which speak equally forcefully to whites' own self-conceptualizations.
Author : Marilynn Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350104273
How is meaning in our bodies constructed? To what extent is meaning in bodies innate, evolved through biological adaptations? To what extent is meaning in bodies culturally constructed? Does it change when we adorn ourselves in dress? In Adorning Bodies, Marilynn Johnson draws on evolutionary theory and philosophy in order to think about art, beauty, and aesthetics. Considering meaning in bodies and bodily adornment, she explores how the ways we use our bodies are similar to - yet at other times different from - animals. Johnson engages with the work of evolutionary theorists, philosophers of language, and cultural theorists - Charles Darwin, H. P. Grice, and Roland Barthes respectively - to examine both natural and non-natural meanings. She addresses how both systems of meaning signify relevant information to other humans, with respect to both bodies and clothes. Johnson also demonstrates that how we dress could negatively influence the way our bodies can be read, and how some humans and animals use their bodies to deceive.
Author : Julian Vigo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Gender identity in literature
ISBN : 3039119516
This book reconsiders the body in literature and makes a case for visual representation as a physical and gesticulative domain for rethinking the constructions of gender, nationalism and sexuality. Examining literary production from the eleventh century until the present, the author argues that the body in contemporary North Africa and Latin America serves as a physical and symbolic terrain upon which sexual, textual, national, racial and linguistic identities are vectored and through which postcolonial and hegemonic antagonisms of power and identity are resolved. Rather than embracing «third world» identity as a residual repository of western thought, colonization and linguistic infusion, the author suggests that the paradigm of cultural identity in the Maghreb and Latin America is best understood through an examination of the emergent corporeal articulations of subjectivity prevalent in these literatures and visual cultures. The text examines the body as a critical landscape through which the various discourses of nationhood, gender and sexuality converge in order to construct a reading of the social that neither amasses subjectivity as singular under the rubric of the «third world», nor couches the other within static notions of gendered, sexual or racial identities.
Author : Ezequiel A. Di Paolo,Elena Clare Cuffari,Hanne De Jaegher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262547864
A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and language. Linguistic Bodies offers a fully embodied and fully social treatment of human language without positing mental representations. The authors present the first coherent, overarching theory that connects dynamical explanations of action and perception with language. Arguing from the assumption of a deep continuity between life and mind, they show that this continuity extends to language. Expanding and deepening enactive theory, they offer a constitutive account of language and the co-emergent phenomena of personhood, reflexivity, social normativity, and ideality. Language, they argue, is not something we add to a range of existing cognitive capacities but a new way of being embodied. Each of us is a linguistic body in a community of other linguistic bodies. The book describes three distinct yet entangled kinds of human embodiment, organic, sensorimotor, and intersubjective; it traces the emergence of linguistic sensitivities and introduces the novel concept of linguistic bodies; and it explores the implications of living as linguistic bodies in perpetual becoming, applying the concept of linguistic bodies to questions of language acquisition, parenting, autism, grammar, symbol, narrative, and gesture, and to such ethical concerns as microaggression, institutional speech, and pedagogy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781848880283
This volume is a result of four days in July 2005, where historians, health economists, medical doctors and nurses, anthropologists, writers, sociologists and many more travelled to Oxford, England for the fourth annual 'Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease' conference organised by Inter-Disciplinary.Net.
