Book/Printed Material Plastic bodies : rebuilding sensation after phenomenology
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Title
- Plastic bodies : rebuilding sensation after phenomenology
Summary
- "In Plastic Bodies, Tom Sparrow argues that the phenomenologists have not gone far enough, however. Alongside close readings of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, he digs into an array of ancient, modern, and contemporary texts in search of the resources needed to rebuild the concept of sensation after phenomenology" Google Books.
- "This is a book about embodiment, one of the cardinal themes of contemporary philosophy. This is also a book about phenomenology, which has done more than any other school to bring the body to the center of philosophical analysis. But this is not a book of phenomenology. While it draws liberally from the resources of phenomenology, the idea of embodiment assembled in its pages is quite often at odds with the first-person orientation of the phenomenological method. It is therefore as much about the limits of phenomenology as it is about the limits of the body. In the last analysis it is really about how we might rebuild the somewhat unfashionable concept of sensation following the rescue attempts made by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas"-- Introduction.
Names
- Sparrow, Tom, 1979- author
Created / Published
- London : Open Humanities Press, 2014.
- ©2014
Contents
- Foreword: After the flesh / by Catherine Malabou -- Introduction -- Post-dualist embodiment, with some theses on sensation -- Synchronic bodies and environmental orientation -- Perception, sensation, and the problem of violence -- Sensibility, susceptibility, and the genesis of individuals -- On aesthetic plasticity -- Conclusion: Plasticity and power.
Headings
- - Perception (Philosophy)
- - Phenomenology
- - Philosophy, American--20th century
- - Senses and sensation--Philosophy
Genre
- Electronic books
Notes
- - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (openhumanitiespress WWW site, viewed June 18, 2020).
Medium
- 1 online resource
Call Number/Physical Location
- BF233
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2020394750
Rights Advisory
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode External
Access Advisory
- Unrestricted online access
Online Format
- image