Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Science --- Philosophy --- Descartes, René --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- Philosophers --- Philosophy, Modern --- Descartes, René, --- Modern philosophy --- Descartes, René, --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Intellectual life --- Philosophers - France - Biography --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

What is the body? How was it constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of Cartesian rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a lived experiential entity in the early modern period to its anatomical abstraction and disembodiment through mechanical and virtual philosophical models in the modern period. Emergent analogies of the body to a machine sundered the body from its subjective and worldly existence, reducing it to the abject condition of a thing. This progressive virtualization of the body implies the loss of the experiential lived body and recasts the question of sexuality within the purview of the organism-machine, consequently destroying its meaning as embodied expression. Rather than treating sexual difference as a given, as an anatomical or philosophical destiny, 'The culture of the body' challenges essentialist accounts of sexuality by demonstrating that human embodiment entails diverse processes of cultural and social materialization. It shows how these multiple genealogies of the body inflect both its inherited meanings and its legacy to modernity resulting in alternative ways for conceiving and representing the body today.

History of civilization --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- 130.14 --- lichaam --- Wijsgerige antropologie: lichaam --- corps --- French literature --- Human body (Philosophy) --- Human body in literature. --- Philosophy, Modern. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- 130.14 Wijsgerige antropologie: lichaam --- Human body in literature --- Philosophy, Modern --- Body, Human (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Modern philosophy --- History and criticism --- History

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Art --- philosophy of art --- philosophy --- art criticism --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- filosofie --- kunstbeschouwing --- kunstfilosofie --- Philosophy --- #A0310A --- 062 Cultuurfilosofie --- 620 Kunst --- 7.01 --- Adorno Theodor W. --- Bataille Georges --- Benjamin Walter --- Blanchot Maurice --- Derrida Jacques --- Frank Vande Veire --- Freud Sigmund --- Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich --- Heidegger Martin --- Hölderlin Friedrich --- Kant Immanuel --- Lacan Jacques --- Nietzsche Friedrich --- Schelling Friedrich --- Schiller Friedrich --- esthetica --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- 700.6 --- Adorno, Theodor W. --- Bataille, Georges --- Benjamin, Walter --- Blanchot, Maurice --- Derrida, Jacques --- Freud, Sigmund --- Hegel --- Heidegger, Martin --- Hölderlin --- Kant, Immanuel --- Lacan, Jacques --- Nietzsche --- Schelling --- Schiller --- wijsbegeerte --- beeldende kunst, filosofie, esthetiek en kritiek der beeldende kunst --- Art and Philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Hulpwetenschappen --- History. --- filosofie. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Adorno, Theodor W --- Adorno Theodor W --- Modern philosophy --- Philosophy and art --- History --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich --- Hölderlin, Friedrich --- Nietzsche, Friedrich --- Schelling, Friedrich --- Schiller, Friedrich --- filosofie (wijsbegeerte)