TY - BOOK ID - 77860548 TI - Thinking the limits of the body AU - Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome AU - Weiss, Gail PY - 2003 SN - 0791487474 1417520531 9781417520534 0791455998 9780791455999 0791456005 9780791456002 9780791487471 9780791487471 PB - Albany State University of New York Press DB - UniCat KW - Human body (Philosophy) KW - Human body KW - Body, Human (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy KW - Social aspects. KW - Human body (Philosophy). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77860548 AB - This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body. ER -