Skin : On the Cultural Border Between Self and World (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Skin : On the Cultural Border Between Self and World (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

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"A prize-winning examination of the changing cultural and metaphorical significance of skin, through innovative readings of literature, art, philosophy, history, anthropology, medicine, and more." -- Library Journal

"[Benthien] deftly illuminates her findings, and she is quite brilliant. This is historical anthropology at its best." -- Joanna Briscoe, The Guardian

"Delves into the cultural role of skin as the place where personal identity is formed and assigned." -- Publishers Weekly

"This cultural study examines the relations among self-consciousness, subjectivity, and skin from the 18th century to the present.... Benthien discusses the semantic and psychic aspects of touching, feeling, and intellectual perception; the motifs of perforated, armored, or transparent skin." -- Translation Review

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"Benthien's fascinating study illuminates historically changing notions of 'skin'in literature, art, and anatomical and other scientific discourse since the eighteenth century. The reader of this book gains a new understanding of the cultural significance of skin." -- Werner Sollors, Harvard University

"A stunning meditation on cultural codifications of skin, examining the hierarchies of color, discursive grids and fantasmatic cathexes, some of which are bound to make one's skin crawl. Claudia Benthien produces a crucial skin archive of masks, bandages, and the residue of an unbearable history of flaying." -- Avital Ronell, New York University

Skin : On the Cultural Border Between Self and World (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Skin : On the Cultural Border Between Self and World (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism),Claudia Benthien,Thomas Dunlap,Columbia University Press,0231125038,Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology / Anthropology,General,Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Sociology

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