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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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