Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life : : Studies in intercultural and historical contexts /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (251 p.)
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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

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