Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life : : Studies in intercultural and historical contexts / / Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• HerausgeberIn: Melville, Gert,; Ruta, Carlos,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Body Factories --; Self-reference and Sociality --; Thinking the Body --; Representation and Scene --; The Headless Body --; The Body in Psychoanalysis --; The Body between Creation, Fall, Death, and Resurrection --; Thinking the Body in the Middle Ages --; Between Affirmation and Rejection --; Body – State – Cosmos --; Belief – Institution – Behavior --; Is My Body My Own? --; The “Pornification” of the Gaze --; Feminicide and the Pedagogy of Violence --; Use and Representations of the Body among Police Officers in the Province of Buenos Aires --; About the Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110407389; 9783110700985; 9783110439687; 9783110438635
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110407389
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta.

The body is at the same time a place where we express duration and/or discontinuity in history, a witness of radical social changes, and a factor of stabilization, but also of the transformation of human life - and therefore an eminent challenge for every human being. This book will contribute in a decisively interdisciplinary and cross-cultural way to a better understanding of the place, role, and connection of the body within social, political, and cultural shifts.