The Signifying Body

Author : Penelope Ingram
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791478370

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The Signifying Body by Penelope Ingram Pdf

How do we live ethically? What role do sex and race play in living or being ethically? Can ethics lead to ontology? Can literature play a role in ethical being? Drawing extensively on the work of Luce Irigaray, Frantz Fanon, and Martin Heidegger, Penelope Ingram argues that ethical questions must be understood in light of ontological ones. It is only when sexual and racial difference are viewed at an ontological level that ethics is truly possible. Central to the connection between ontology and ethics is the role of language. Ingram revisits the relationship between representation and matter in order to advance a theory of material signification. She examines a number of twentieth-century film and literary texts, including Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, to demonstrate that material signification, rather than representation, is crucial to our experience of living authentically and achieving an ethical relation with the Other. By attending closely to Heidegger's, Irigaray's, and Fanon's positions on language, this original work argues that the literary text is indispensable to a "revealing" of the relationship between ontology and ethics, and through it, the reader can experience a state of "authentic Being ethically."

Author : Paul J. Thibault
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826492531

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Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body by Paul J. Thibault Pdf

This cutting-edge study of linguistic theory by one of the world's leading authors in the field of semiotics will be of interest to academics and postgraduates researching applied linguistics and advanced semiotics. In his foreword M. A. K. Halliday explains the importance of Paul J. Thibault's work to linguistics. Book jacket.

Author : G. Thomas Couser
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472050697

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Signifying Bodies by G. Thomas Couser Pdf

Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?

Author : Dr Annabelle Mooney
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472422613

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Human Rights and the Body by Dr Annabelle Mooney Pdf

Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of human rights, their very existence is threatened. While there has been consideration of the discourses of human rights and the way in which the body is written upon, research in linguistics has not yet been fully brought to bear on either human rights or the body. Drawing on legal concepts and aspects of the law of human rights, Mooney aims to provide a universally defensible set of human rights and a foundation, or rather a frame, for them. She argues that the proper frames for human rights are firstly the human body, seen as an index reliant on the natural world, secondly the globe and finally, language. These three frames generate rights to food, water, sleep and shelter, environmental protection and a right against dehumanization. This book is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of human rights and semiotics of law.

Author : Theodore R. Schatzki,Wolfgang Natter
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1572301406

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The Social and Political Body by Theodore R. Schatzki,Wolfgang Natter Pdf

Beginning with the provocative premise that the body is the anchor of the social order, this book delves into the multidimensional relationship between sociopolitical bodies and human bodies. It explores the way that prevailing economic and political institutions affect our experience of our physical selves and, in turn, the ways that our bodily senses, energies, activities and desires reinforce or challenge the status quo.

Author : Candace Waid
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780820345833

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The Signifying Eye by Candace Waid Pdf

A bold book, built of close readings, striking in its range and depth, The Signifying Eye shows Faulkner's art take shape in sweeping arcs of social, labor, and aesthetic history. Beginning with long-unpublished works (his childhood sketches and his hand-drawn and handillustrated play The Marionettes) and early novels (Mosquitoes and Sartoris), working through many major works (The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!), and including more popular fictions (The Wild Palms and The Unvanquished) and late novels (notably Intruder in the Dust and The Town), The Signifying Eye reveals Faulkner's visual obsessions with artistic creation as his work is read next to Wharton, Cather, Toomer, and—in a tour de force intervention—Willem de Kooning. After coloring in southern literature as a "reverse slave narrative," Waid's Eye locates Faulkner's fiction as the "feminist hinge" in a crucial parable of art that seeks abstraction through the burial of the race-defined mother. Race is seen through gender and sexuality while social fall is exposed (in Waid's phrase) as a "coloring of class." Locating "visual language" that constitutes a "pictorial vocabulary," The Signifying Eye delights in literacy as the oral meets the written and the abstract opens as a site to see narrative. Steeped in history, this book locates a heightened reality that goes beyond representation to bring Faulkner's novels, stories, and drawings into visible form through Whistler, Beardsley, Gorky, and de Kooning. Visionary and revisionist, Waid has painted the proverbial big picture, changing the fundamental way that both the making of modernism and the avant-garde will be seen. A Friends Fund publication

Author : Stefania Achella,Francesca Iannelli,Gabriella Baptist,Serena Feloj,Fiorinda Li Vigni,Claudia Melica
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110709278

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The Owl's Flight by Stefania Achella,Francesca Iannelli,Gabriella Baptist,Serena Feloj,Fiorinda Li Vigni,Claudia Melica Pdf

This book presents a unique rethinking of G. W. F. Hegel's philosophy from unusual and controversial perspectives in order to liberate new energies from his philosophy. The role Hegel ascribes to women in the shaping of society and family, the reconstruction of his anthropological and psychological perspective, his approach to human nature, the relationship between mental illness and social disease, the role of the unconscious, and the relevance of intercultural and interreligious pathways: All these themes reveal new and inspiring aspects of Hegel’s thought for our time.

Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231561402

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Revolution in Poetic Language by Julia Kristeva Pdf

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Human body
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005130559

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The Cultural Display of the Body by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : BCUL:1092467064

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke Pdf

Author : Julius Köstlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Lutheran Church
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081767733

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The Theology of Luther in Its Historical Development and Inner Harmony by Julius Köstlin Pdf

Author : Joseph Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:HC18ES

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A Complete Pronouncing Medical Dictionary by Joseph Thomas Pdf

Author : ..... Hensleigh Wedgwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z255162708

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A Dictionary of English Etymology by ..... Hensleigh Wedgwood Pdf

Author : Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:303275020

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Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) Pdf

Author : Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya,Ashoke Kumar Sen Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127769599

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Philosophical Consciousness and Scientific Knowledge by Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya,Ashoke Kumar Sen Gupta Pdf

The Main Issues That Figure In The Very Title Of This Volume Are Indicative Of Its Scope And Contents. First, Philosophical Studies In Consciousness Have Their Persuppositions As Well As Implications. Secondly, In Order To Understant Clearly The Said Pre-Suppositions And Implications, The Intended Reader Group Needs To Tbe Introduced At Least To Some Core Concepts Of Philosophy And Science In Their Modern Sense. Thirdly, Since This Work Is Cross-Disciplinary In Its Orientation, The Conceptual Linkages Between Science And Philosophy Have Been Explored By Distinguished Philosophers And Scientists In Several Contributions To This Publication. Finally, A Conscious Attempt Has Been Made In Many Papers Of This Work That Every Branch Of Valid Knowledge, Philosophy Or Science, However Theoretically Abstract It May Be, Has Its Practical Moorings And The Same Are Temporarily Traceable. From The Available History Of Philosophy And Science It Is Found That These Disciplines Were Integrated In The Ancient Times. Differentiation Has Been Due To Endlessly Increasing Specialization Within Each Discipline. Even Today Many Philosophers And Historians Of Science Are Studying Carefully The Relation Between Different Strata Of Disciplines. The Emphasis On The Above Issues Is Intended, Among Other Things, To Avoid The Extremes Of Reductionosm, Mistakes Of Value-Fact Dualism, And To Clarify The Connection Between Theory And Practice, Experience And Experiment, Discovery And Legitimization Of Truth-Claims. In An Anthology Like This, Difference In Pre-Suppositions And Conclusions Of The Contributors, Cannot Be Ruled Out. Respect For The Freedom Of Thought, A Hallmark Of The Project, Has Been Tempered By Commitment To Reasoning. This Book, Primary Meant For Fairly Educated Readers, Is Likely To Be Of Interest To The Researchers In The Areas Of Social And Natural Science, And The Reading Public.