Our Strange Body: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions
Autor Jenny Slatmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2014
The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways—from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics—is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate radical physical changes.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789089646477
ISBN-10: 9089646477
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 0 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:0.
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Colecția Amsterdam University Press
ISBN-10: 9089646477
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 0 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:0.
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Colecția Amsterdam University Press
Notă biografică
Jenny Slatman is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Health, Ethics and Society at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
Cuprins
Contents
Preface & Acknowledgments
Introduction
The issue of identity: Being self and other
Social-scientif ic and ethical analyses of body modif ications
A phenomenology of identity
1. Heavy, Inanimate, and Nauseating Bodies
Carrying along our body
The fallen soul
Inanimate life
The modern soul
The soul that inhabits the stomach
Reality bracketed off
Sweating and blushing
2. Body Boundaries
Strange bones
Handiness, or handling one’s world
Body schema
Leib and Körper: Difference and unity
Tolerating the strange
Limits to tolerance
3. Mirror, Please Tell Me Who I Am
‘Oh my God, I look as hot as I feel’
Narcissism
Other Narcissuses
The power of the gaze
Own and strange in the mirror image
4. I Exist on the Outside
Turned inside out
The inner self as unassailable stronghold
Seen from the outside
Touch
Recognition without narcissism
5. My Strange I
Prosthetic wings
The speaking and spoken I
Thinking is speaking
For – sum
Living with intruders
What is strange and what is own
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Preface & Acknowledgments
Introduction
The issue of identity: Being self and other
Social-scientif ic and ethical analyses of body modif ications
A phenomenology of identity
1. Heavy, Inanimate, and Nauseating Bodies
Carrying along our body
The fallen soul
Inanimate life
The modern soul
The soul that inhabits the stomach
Reality bracketed off
Sweating and blushing
2. Body Boundaries
Strange bones
Handiness, or handling one’s world
Body schema
Leib and Körper: Difference and unity
Tolerating the strange
Limits to tolerance
3. Mirror, Please Tell Me Who I Am
‘Oh my God, I look as hot as I feel’
Narcissism
Other Narcissuses
The power of the gaze
Own and strange in the mirror image
4. I Exist on the Outside
Turned inside out
The inner self as unassailable stronghold
Seen from the outside
Touch
Recognition without narcissism
5. My Strange I
Prosthetic wings
The speaking and spoken I
Thinking is speaking
For – sum
Living with intruders
What is strange and what is own
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index of Names
Index of Subjects