Thinking Bodies

by MacCannell, Juliet Flower; Zakarin, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780804723046
• ISBN10: 0804723044
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

The diverse group of philosophers and literary critics who contribute to this volume address the question of how bodies think, how thought is embodied, from a variety of approaches including deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminist theory, postmodernism, cultural and media studies, literary criticism, and the revisionist study of oppressed peoples.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Corpus	p. 17
Response to Jean-Luc Nancy	p. 32
Jean-Luc Nancy and the Corpus of Philosophy	p. 52
How to Give Body to a Deadlock?	p. 63
Por causa mecanica: The Coupling of Bodies and Machines and the Production and Reproduction of Whiteness in Cecilia Valdes and Nineteenth-Century Cuba	p. 78
Finitude's Score	p. 87
Hiroshima in the Morning	p. 109
Writing the Body: The Rhetoric of Mutilation in Marguerite Duras's L'amante anglaise	p. 120
Writing (as) the Perverse Body in Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde	p. 132
American Indian Lives and Others' Selves: The Invention of Indian Selves in Autobiography	p. 141
How to Reinvent Your Body in Cameroonian Women's Writing	p. 149
Corporal Politics: Diderot's Body of Representation	p. 156
Bodies in the Light: Relaxing the Imaginary in Video	p. 165
Electronic Bodies/Real Bodies: Reading the Evening News	p. 181
Transcendental Narcissism Meets the Multiplicity (Lacan: Deleuze)	p. 195
God(')s Wink: The Book of Job, the University's Concern for Its Students, and Other Parables	p. 215
Notes	p. 229
Index	p. 259
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