Thinking the limits of the body (Google eBook)

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Gail Weiss

SUNY Press, 2003 - Social Science - 203 pages

This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.

Contents

• II: 1
• III: 11
• IV: 13
• V: 25
• VI: 37
• VII: 39
• VIII: 63
• IX: 83
• X: 85
• XI: 101
• XII: 127
• XIII: 129
• XIV: 145
• XV: 165
• XVI: 167
• XVII: 187
• XVIII: 197

Popular passages

Page 2 - In fact the horizon of the present is being continually formed, in that we have continually to test all our prejudices. An important part of this testing is the encounter with the past and the understanding of the tradition from which we come. Hence the horizon of the present cannot be formed without the past. There is no more an isolated horizon of the present than there are historical horizons. Understanding, rather, is always the fusion of these horizons which we imagine to exist by themselves.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Thinking the limits of the body; G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series; SUNY series in aesthetics and the philosophy of art
• Editors: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Gail Weiss
• Contributor: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SUNY Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0791487474, 9780791487471
• Length: 203 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / Popular Culture