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Book SynopsisSome fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point of view, various breakdowns are worth analyzing for their own sake, and discussing them also opens up overlooked dimensions of our bodily constitution. This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived bodyâits normality and abnormality, health and sickness, its activity as well as its passivity. The contributors integrate phenomenological insights with discussions about bodily brokenness in philosophy, theology, medical science and literary theory. Phenomenology of the Broken Body demonstrates how the broken body sheds fresh light on the nuances of embodied experience in ordinary life and ultimately questions phenomenologyâs preunderstanding of the body.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Espen Dahl, Cassandra Falke, Thor Eirik Eriksen
Section I: Vulnerable Bodies
1. Weakness and Passivity: Phenomenology of the Body after Paul
Espen Dahl
2. The Vulnerable Body – Merleau-Ponty and Psychoanalysis
Ståle Finke
3. Bodily Pain and the Breakdown of Language in Algerian Testimony and Literature
Alexandra Megearu
4. Framing Embodiment in Violent Narratives
Cassandra Falke
Section II: Suffering Bodies
5. Only Vulnerable Creatures Suffer: On Suffering, Embodiment and Existential Health
Ola Sigurdson
6. The Body Beyond Scientific Certainty – Brokenness, Uncanniness, Affectedness
Thor Eirik Eriksen
7. No Way Out: A Phenomenology of Pain
Christian Grüny
8. The Phenomenology of Fatigue
Katherine Morris
Section III: Recovery and Life´s Margins
9. Suffering’s Double Disclosure and the Structure of Normality in Experience
James McGuirk
10. Recovery as Re-attunement: Repairing the Body-World Relationship
Drew Leder
11. Notes from a Heart Attack
Kevin Aho
12. Broken Pregnancies
Talia Welsh
13. Dying Bodies and Dead Bodies: A Phenomenological Analysis of Dementia, Coma and Brain Death
Fredrik Svenaeus
