Body Tranformations: Evolutions and Atavisms in Culture
Body Tranformations: Evolutions and Atavisms in Culture
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""Lingis has an uncanny ability to make you sit up and take notice at the oddity of the world, how the experience of human nature and nature by far exceeds our theories. His writing is in synchrony with this excess; he interpolates personal anecdotes in ways I find utterly convincing and helpful, like jewels in a fishnet. Lingis is a unique voice in English language commentary."."
–Michael Taussig
Book Description
In this new book, the philosopher and critic Alphonso Lingis extends a question that has occupied him throughout his career: how are we to understand the strangeness of our bodies? Weaving together philosophy, psychoanalysis, and anthropology, Lingis explores how the body might be more richly understood in terms of parts. Moving from ethics to fetishism, from the functions of genitals to the distinctiveness of good actions, this is a unique and thought-provoking book.
Body Tranformations: Evolutions and Atavisms in Culture,Alphonso Lingis,Routledge,0415973678,Body image,Body, Human,Body, Human, in popular culture,Cross-cultural studies,Dermatology,Literary Criticism,Medical / Nursing,Popular Culture - General,Semiotics & Theory,Social aspects,Philosophy
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