Moving Bodies

by Hawhee, Debra

• ISBN13: 9781570038099
• ISBN10: 1570038090
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-24
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Author Biography

"HAWHEE is one of the most significant scholars of rhetoric today, and Burke is one of the most significant in history. Body studies is not new; yet, it remains one of the most compelling transdisciplinary approaches to examining nature, culture, communication, belief, vulnerability, and pleasure. The type of body biography Hawhee performs in Moving Bodies signals a worthwhile trend-one that continues to teach us what we miss when we rigidly compartmentalize bodies and minds, theory and practice, affect and politics, individual health and collective attitudes, people and ecology, and the sciences and the humanities. This book will move you." Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Indiana University, and author of Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: An "Excursion"	p. 1
Bodies as Equipment for Moving (from Artist to Audience)	p. 12
Burke's Mystical Method	p. 30
Burke on Drugs: Efficiency and the Valuation of Habits	p. 55
From the Rhetoric of Science to the Science of Rhetoric: The Case of Endocrinology	p. 75
Seeing "Deviance" as Inclination: Kretschmerian Constitutions and Bodily Occupations	p. 92
Body Language: Paget and Gesture-Speech Theory	p. 106
Welcome to the Beauty Clinic	p. 125
Conclusion: Action in Motion	p. 156
Notes	p. 169
Works Cited	p. 189
Index	p. 205
About the Author	p. 217
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