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Analyzes the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.

Semiotics --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- History of civilization --- HUMAN BODY --- BODY MARKING --- SCIENCE --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Human Body --- Body Marking --- Science --- Social Science --- Human body --- Body marking --- Social science

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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

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Do heads excite a desire to chop them off; a desire to decapitate and take a human life, as anthropologists have suggested? The contributors to this book are fascinated by ‘disembodied heads’, which are pursued in their many medieval and early modern disguises and representations, including the metaphorical. They challenge the question why in medieval and early modern cultures the head was usually considered the most important part of the body, a primacy only contested by the heart for religious reasons. Carefully mapping beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, the result is an attempt to establish a ‘cultural anatomy’ of the head, which is relevant for cultural historians, art historians and students of the philosophy, art and sciences of the premodern period. Contributors include Barbara Baert, Esther Cohen, Mateusz Kapustka, Arjan R. de Koomen, Robert Mills, Marina Montesano, Scott B. Montgomery, Catrien Santing, Jetze Touber, and Bert Watteeuw.

Head --- Human body --- Social aspects --- Figure drawing --- Skull --- Beheading --- Medicine in Art --- Tête --- Corps humain --- Décapitation --- Médecine dans l'art --- Social aspects. --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- History of civilization --- Head - Social aspects - Congresses --- Human body - Social aspects - Congresses --- Tête --- Décapitation

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The body plays a central role in shaping our experience of the world. Why, then, are we so frequently oblivious to our own bodies? We gaze at the world, but rarely see our own eyes. We may be unable to explain how we perform the simplest of acts. We are even less aware of our internal organs and the physiological processes that keep us alive. In this fascinating work, Drew Leder examines all the ways in which the body is absent—forgotten, alien, uncontrollable, obscured. In part 1, Leder explores a wide range of bodily functions with an eye to structures of concealment and alienation. He discusses not only perception and movement, skills and tools, but a variety of "bodies" that philosophers tend to overlook: the inner body with its anonymous rhythms; the sleeping body into which we nightly lapse; the prenatal body from which we first came to be. Leder thereby seeks to challenge "primacy of perception." In part 2, Leder shows how this phenomenology allows us to rethink traditional concepts of mind and body. Leder argues that Cartesian dualism exhibits an abiding power because it draws upon life-world experiences. Descartes' corpus is filled with disruptive bodies which can only be subdued by exercising "disembodied" reason. Leder explores the origins of this notion of reason as disembodied, focusing upon the hidden corporeality of language and thought. In a final chapter, Leder then proposes a new ethic of embodiment to carry us beyond Cartesianism. This original, important, and accessible work uses examples from the author's medical training throughout. It will interest all those concerned with phenomenology, the philosophy of mind, or the Cartesian tradition; those working in the health care professions; and all those fascinated by the human body.

Dualism. --- Mind and body. --- Body, Human (Philosophy) --- Occasionalism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Human medicine --- Semiotics --- Human body (Philosophy) --- Mind and body --- Dualism --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Psychological aspects --- Brain --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Philosophy --- Idealism --- Materialism --- Monism --- Realism

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"The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new.... I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking." "This is a text of rare erudition and intellectual force. It will not only introduce feminists to an enriching set of theoretical perspectives but sets a high critical standard for feminist dialogues on the status of the body." Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Human biology is inherently social and has no pure or natural "origin" outside of culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is "incomplete" and thus subject to the endless rewriting and social inscription that constitute all sign systems. Examining the theories of Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, etc. on the subject of the body, Elizabeth Grosz concludes that the body they theorize is male. These thinkers are not providing an account of "human" corporeality but of male corporeality. Grosz then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women -- menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause. Her examination of female experience lays the groundwork for developing theories of sexed corporeality rather than merely rectifying flawed models of male theorists.

Feminist theory. --- Gender identity. --- Human body --- Social aspects. --- -Gender identity --- Feminist theory --- Gender identity --- 316.356.2 --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- 316.356.2 Gezinssociologie --- Gezinssociologie --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Body, Human --- Human body - Social aspects --- Gender dysphoria --- Body --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychology --- Sexuality --- Theory --- Biology --- Book