254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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Foreign Bodies analyzes how our culture elaborates for us the bodies we have by natural evolution. Calling on the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body, Alphonso Lingis explores forms of power, pleasure and pain, and libidinal identity. The book contrasts the findings of theory with the practice of the body as formulated in quite different kinds of language--the... Read more
Part one The Force of the Body; Chapter 1 The Competent Body; Chapter 2 Orchids and Muscles; Chapter 3 Bodies Our Own; Part two The Pleasure and the Pain; Chapter 4 The Subjectification of the Body; Chapter 5 The Insistence on Correspondence; Chapter 6 These Alien Feelings That Are Our Own; Part three The Libidinal Economy; Chapter 7 Hard Currency; Chapter 8 Fluid Economy; Chapter 9 Strange Lusts That Are Our Own; Part four Imperative Bodies; Chapter 10 Imperative Surfaces; Chapter 11 Elemental Bodies; Chapter 12 Foreign Bodies;
Biography
Alphonso Lingis is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.
"The last segment of the book elegantly elucidates Levina's conception of the face and compares it with the imperatives of Kant and Heidegger--each of whom are carefully and fairly interpreted. This review does no justice at all to Lingis's exquisite, streaming prose." -- Michael D. Barber, International Studies in Philosophy
"Lingis writes with remarkable clarity and specificity and delivers with rebellious brio tightly constructed arguments. [He] formulates an exacting account of carnal experience as the expression-event of an alterity that both enables and escapes the signifying archipelago of consciousness." -- Ron Fogleman Religious Studies Review
