268 Pages
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Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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Volatile Bodies is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivity, psychological depth and inferiority can be refigured in terms of bodies and surfaces. It uses, transforms and subverts the work of a number of distinguished male theorists of the body (Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Schilder, Nietzsche, Foucault, Lingis and Deleuze) who, while freeing the body from its subordination... Read more
Introduction and acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
1 Refiguring bodies
Part II The inside out
2 Psychoanalysis and physical topographies
3 Body images: neurophysiology and corporeal mappings
4 Lived bodies: phenomenology and the flesh
Part III The outside in
5 Nietzsche and the choreography of knowledge
6 The body as inscriptive surface
7 Intensities and flows
Part IV Sexual difference
8 Sexed bodies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Part I. Introduction
1 Refiguring bodies
Part II The inside out
2 Psychoanalysis and physical topographies
3 Body images: neurophysiology and corporeal mappings
4 Lived bodies: phenomenology and the flesh
Part III The outside in
5 Nietzsche and the choreography of knowledge
6 The body as inscriptive surface
7 Intensities and flows
Part IV Sexual difference
8 Sexed bodies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Elizabeth Grosz is one of Australia's best-known feminist theorists and teaches in Philosophy, Women's Studies and Critical Theory at Monash University in Melbourne. She is the author of Sexual Subversions: Three French feminists and Jacques Lacan: A feminist introduction, and editor of six collections of feminist theory.
