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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

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020394750

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Sparrow, Tom, Author. Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology. London: Open Humanities Press, . ©, 2014. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020394750/.

APA citation style:

Sparrow, T. (2014) Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology. London: Open Humanities Press, . ©. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020394750/.

MLA citation style:

Sparrow, Tom, Author. Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology. London: Open Humanities Press, . ©, 2014. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020394750/>.