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Book SynopsisThe only collection of readings on the philosophy of the body. Challenges the reader to look at the development of a phenomenological theory of the body by such thinkers as Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Designed for use in courses on theory of gender and identity.
Trade Review"Finally, those of us who teach courses on continental theories of the body will be able to say goodbye to homemade readers! This beautifully organized and indispensable anthology puts it all together for us: well-chosen selections from the foundational twentieth-century texts and clarifying contemporary commentary. An invaluable contribution for teachers, students, and scholars."
Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, University of KentuckyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: Foundations of a Theory of the Body 1
Part I Phenomenological Formulations 9
Edmund Husserl 11
1 Material Things in Their Relation to the Aesthetic Body 11
The Constitution of Psychic Reality Through the Body 23
Edmund Husserl
2 Soft, Smooth Hands: Husserl’s Phenomenology of the Lived-Body 38
Donn Welton
3 The Zero-Point of Orientation: The Placement of the I in Perceived Space 57
Elmar Holenstein
Martin Heidegger 95
4 Introduction to Being and Time 95
Equipment, Action, and the World 97
Dasein as Affective Responsiveness and as Understanding 103
Seeing and Sight 103
Hearing, Discourse, and the Call of Care 110
Hands 111
On Hearing the Logos 115
Martin Heidegger
5 The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment: Heidegger’s Thinking of Being 122
David Michael Levin
Maurice Merleau-Ponty 150
6 Situating the Body 150
The Lived Body 154
The Body in Its Sexual Being 158
The Natural World and the Body 166
Maurice Merleau–Ponty
7 Saturated Intentionality 178
Anthony J. Steinbock
8 Flesh and Blood: A Proposed Supplement to Merleau–Ponty 200
Drew Leder
Part II Psycho- and Sociotropic Genealogical Analyses 211
Jacques Lacan 213
9 Towards a Genetic Theory of the Ego 213
The See-saw of Desire 218
The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Body 221
Anamorphosis 223
Jacques Lacan
10 The Status and Significance of the Body in Lacan’s Imaginary and Symbolic Orders 232
Charles W Bonner
Michel Foucault: 252
11 Discipline and Punish 252
The History of Sexuality 269
Michel Foucalt
12 The Subjectification of the Body 286
Alphonso Lingis
13 Foucault and the Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions 307
Judith Butler
Part III Towards a Semiotics of the Gendered Body 315
Julia Kristeva 317
14 Subject and Body 317
On the Meaning of Drives 325
Julia Kristeva
15 The Flesh Become Word: The Body in Kristeva’s Theory 341
Kelly Oliver
Luce Irigaray 353
16 Female Desire 353
Luce Irigaray
17 Beyond Sex and Gender: On Luce Irigaray’s This Sex Which Is Not One 361
Tina Chanter
