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Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them - from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it. Building on the works by Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, Astrida Neimanis's book is a landmark study that brings a new feminist perspective to bear on ideas of embodiment and ecological ethics in the posthuman critical moment.

Feminist theory. --- Phenomenology. --- Water --- Philosophy. --- Sociology --- Methodology. --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Philosophy --- Wasser. --- Bodies of water. --- Ethics. --- Ontology. --- Society. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Hydrology --- Being --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Values --- Water bodies --- Waterbodies --- Shorelines --- Gewässer --- Theory of knowledge --- Human ecology. Social biology --- Comparative literature --- Literary theory --- Feminism and feminist theory --- Queer --- Theory --- Book --- Ecology

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New materialisms argue for a more science-friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention - climate, biology, affect, geology, animals and objects - tend to leverage their difference against language and the discursive. Similarly, questions about ontology have come to eclipse, and even eschew, those of epistemology.

While this collection of essays is in kinship with this radical shake-up of how and what we study, the aim is to re-navigate what constitutes materiality. These efforts are encapsulated by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom, 'there is no outside text' as 'there is no outside nature.' What if nature has always been literate, numerate, social? And what happens to 'the human' if its exceptional identity and status is conceded quantum, non-local and ecological implication?

Materialism. --- Philosophy of nature. --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Physicalism --- Animism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- Naturalism. --- Materialism --- Science