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Book SynopsisProlegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics introduces body politics from both Eastern and Western perspectives. Hwa Yol Jung explores Giambattista Vico's anti-Cartesiansim and covers the carnal landscapes of Martin Heidegger, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Luce Irigaray, Marshall McLuhan, and transversal geophilosophy.
Trade ReviewHwa Yol Jung creatively works through the historical shifts from Vico to McLuhan and onto Baktin, Arendt and Levinas that have revised the acts of reading and interpretation through which we enlarge our own cultural identities. -- John O'Neill, York University
Hwa Yol Jung is a leading pioneer of intercultural understanding and engagement. Undercutting the Western supremacy of the ego cogito, his long string of publications has made room for complex and surprising networks of transversality. Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics constitutes the pinnacle of his life-long quest. Casting the net wide and deep, his book yields a treasure trove of transversal geophilosophy: from Vico to Heidegger, from Merleau-Ponty and Bakhtin to Kyoto's Hoshi and China's yin/yang, and much, much more. -- Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Giambattista Vico and the Genesis of Carnal Hermeneutics Appendix 1. Vico, Hermeneutical Phenomenology, and the Human Sciences: Appendix 2. Embodiment and Political Action Chapter 2. Martin Heidegger and the Homecoming of Oral Poetry Chapter 3. Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogical Body Politics Chapter 4. The Making of Body Politics: Arendt, Levinas, and Irigaray Chapter 5. Carnal Hermeneutics and Marshall McLuhan’s Philosophy of Global Chapter 6. Embodiment inTransversal Geophilosophy, East and West
