Thinking the Body As a Basis, Provocation and Burden of Life : Studies in Intercultural and Historical Contexts.
- 1st ed.
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- Challenges of Life: Essays on Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology Series ; v.2 .
- Challenges of Life: Essays on Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology Series .
Intro -- Preface -- Basic Perspectives -- Body Factories -- Self-reference and Sociality. The Differentiation of "Perceived Body" and "Corpus" in Philosophical Anthropology -- Thinking the Body. Durkheim, Mauss, Bourdieu: The Agreements and Disagreements of a Tradition -- Representation and Scene. Mimesis and Vertigo of the Body -- The Headless Body -- The Body in Psychoanalysis -- Premodern Aspects -- The Body between Creation, Fall, Death, and Resurrection. The Human Being and Corporal Life in the View of St. Augustine -- Thinking the Body in the Middle Ages -- Cultural Identities -- Between Affirmation and Rejection. Attitudes towards the Body in Ancient South Asia from the ?gveda to Early Classical Medicine -- Body - State - Cosmos. Random Notes on the Thinking of the Body in China -- Belief - Institution - Behavior. A Comparison of Four Systems of Representation of the Body -- Gender, Sexuality, and Violence -- Is My Body My Own? Reflecting on the Indeterminate Body and Livable Life -- The "Pornification" of the Gaze. A Genealogy of the Nude Breast -- Feminicide and the Pedagogy of Violence. An Essay on Exile, Coloniality and Nature in Third Feminism -- Use and Representations of the Body among Police Officers in the Province of Buenos Aires -- About the Authors.
How have different civilizations throughout different epochs mastered fundamental challenges of life? The series analyses the basic questions of cultural anthropology. All epochs and the most significant civilizations worldwide, as well as different epistemological aspects including historical sciences, sociology, ethnology, art, literature and philosophy are brought together.