Living Across and Through Skins – Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism
Autor Shannon Sullivanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 2001
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780253214409
ISBN-10: 0253214408
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
ISBN-10: 0253214408
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Transactional Bodies after Dewey
2. Living Across and Through Skins: Bodies in Transaction
3. Discursivity and Materiality: The Lived Experience of Transactional Bodies
4. Communicating with Another: Transaction and Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Corporeal Existence
5. Reconfiguring Gender: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change
6. Transactional Somaesthetics: Nietzsche, Women, and the Transformation of Bodily Experience
7. Transactional Knowing: Toward a Pragmatist-Feminist Standpoint Theory
8. Conclusion: Transaction and the Distinctiveness of Races
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Transactional Bodies after Dewey
2. Living Across and Through Skins: Bodies in Transaction
3. Discursivity and Materiality: The Lived Experience of Transactional Bodies
4. Communicating with Another: Transaction and Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Corporeal Existence
5. Reconfiguring Gender: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change
6. Transactional Somaesthetics: Nietzsche, Women, and the Transformation of Bodily Experience
7. Transactional Knowing: Toward a Pragmatist-Feminist Standpoint Theory
8. Conclusion: Transaction and the Distinctiveness of Races
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
Sullivan (Pennsylvania State Univ.) constructs a pragmatic feminist theory by weaving together seemingly disparate strains of philosophical thought, including central ideas of Merleau--Ponty, Judith Butler, Sandra Harding, Lucius Outlaw, and Nietzsche, with the work of John Dewey. What survives scrutiny imbues a Deweyean pragmatism that emphasizes a dynamic, reciprocal, transformative relationship between individual members of the environment and with the environment itself, denying traditionally accepted dichotomies such as mind/body, subject/object, and nature/experience. Two ideas ground Sullivan's theory. First, human corporeality, not an abstract metaphysic, is the basis of truth, moral agency, conceptions of self, and human flourishing. Second, the improvement of individual embodied existence and the improvement of the world are mutually dependent. At times, the idea of bodies is somewhat elusive; still, Sullivan is superb at making difficult ideas in feminism and Continental philosophy seem natural partners for pragmatism. This is an important book for those interested in seeing how traditional philosophy can contribute to contemporary feminist theory. It complements Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (1993); Raia Prokhovnik's Rational Woman: A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy (CH, Jun'00); and Charlene Haddock Seigfried's Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey (2001). Upper--division undergraduates through faculty and researchers. --S./P>--Fernandez, Western Illinois University"Choice" (01/01/2001)
Descriere
Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them.