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Fragments for a History of the Human Body/Part 2 BOOK!!
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Location: Williamstown, NJ
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Full title:
Zone 4: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 2 (Paperback)
Product Details
- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Zone Books (February 1, 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0942299248
List Price: $23.99
Paperback.
WRITE-OFF is stamped on top pages, when book is closed.
Fair condition, because front and back cover have some dents and light wear around the edges of the book.
With all that said, condition is from shelf wear.
The book has never been read.
Intact pages are tight.
Bidding begins CHEAP.
Perfect for the sole scholar and intellectual looking for a good read.
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The 48 essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine
the history of the human body as a field where life and thought
intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have
entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms in order to
construct a body adapted to moral ideas or social circumstances the
body of a charismatic citizen or a visionary monk a mirror image of the
world or a reflection of the spirit.
Each volume emphasizes a particular perspective. Part 1 explores the human body's relationship to the divine, to the bestial, and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. Part 2 covers
the junctures between the body's "outside" and "inside" by studying the
manifestations - or production - of the soul and the expression of the
emotions and, on another level, by examining the speculations inspired
by cenesthesia, pain, and death. Part 3 brings into play the
classical opposition between organ and function by showing how organs
or bodily substances can be used to justify or challenge the way human
societies function and, conversely, how political and social functions
tend to make the bodies of the persons filling them the organs of a
larger body - the social body or the universe as a whole.
Among the contributors to Fragments for a History of the Human Body are
Mark Elvin, Catherine Gallagher, Françoise Héritier Augé, Julia
Kristeva, William R. LaFleur, Thomas W. Laqueur Jacques Le Goff, Nicole
Loraux, Mario Perniola, Hillel Schwartz, Jean Starobinski, Jean Pierre
Vernant, and Caroline Walker Bynum.
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