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How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? This book uses Merleau-Ponty's concept of 'intertwining' - the presence of one's self in the world and of the world in one's self - to understand the ideas that define political life.

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Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. The Intertwining: The Recursion of the Seer and the Seen; II. Artificial Intelligence and the Phenomenology of Flesh; III. Aesthetic Education and the Project of Being Human; IV. The Intertwining of Incommensurables: Yann Martel's Life of Pi; V. Flesh and the Limits of Self-Making; VI. Violence and Embodiment; VII. Excessive Presence and the Image; VIII. Politics and Freedom; IX. Sovereignty and Alterity; X. Political Violence; XI. Public Space; XII. Sustaining the Other: Tolerance as a Positive Ideal; XIII. Forgiveness and Incarnation; End Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names.

Embodiments From the Body to the Body Politic

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 8/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810125605, 978-0810125605
      ISBN10: 0810125609

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? This book uses Merleau-Ponty's concept of 'intertwining' - the presence of one's self in the world and of the world in one's self - to understand the ideas that define political life.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. The Intertwining: The Recursion of the Seer and the Seen; II. Artificial Intelligence and the Phenomenology of Flesh; III. Aesthetic Education and the Project of Being Human; IV. The Intertwining of Incommensurables: Yann Martel's Life of Pi; V. Flesh and the Limits of Self-Making; VI. Violence and Embodiment; VII. Excessive Presence and the Image; VIII. Politics and Freedom; IX. Sovereignty and Alterity; X. Political Violence; XI. Public Space; XII. Sustaining the Other: Tolerance as a Positive Ideal; XIII. Forgiveness and Incarnation; End Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names.

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