Volatile Bodies

ISBN-13: 9780367720056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 268 str.

Elizabeth Grosz

Opis

The book explores various dissonances in thinking the relation between mind and body. It investigates issues that resist reduction to these binary terms.

Spis treści

Introduction and acknowledgments

Part I. Introduction

1 Refiguring bodies

Part II The inside out

2 Psychoanalysis and physical topographies

3 Body images: neurophysiology and corporeal mappings

4 Lived bodies: phenomenology and the flesh

Part III The outside in

5 Nietzsche and the choreography of knowledge

6 The body as inscriptive surface

7 Intensities and flows

Part IV Sexual difference

8 Sexed bodies

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Elizabeth Grosz is one of Australia's best-known feminist theorists and teaches in Philosophy, Women's Studies and Critical Theory at Monash University in Melbourne. She is the author of Sexual Subversions: Three French feminists and Jacques Lacan: A feminist introduction, and editor of six collections of feminist theory.