"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth" metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations--tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more--proliferate in Western culture. Yet outside dermatology textbooks, the topic of skin has been largely ignored. This important cultural study shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century to the present. Claudia Benthien argues that despite medicine's having penetrated the bodily surface and exposed the interior of the body as never before,...
"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth" metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alte...
"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth" metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations--tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more--proliferate in Western culture. Yet outside dermatology textbooks, the topic of skin has been largely ignored. This important cultural study shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century to the present. Claudia Benthien argues that despite medicine's having penetrated the bodily surface and exposed the interior of the body as never before,...
"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth" metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alte...
Auf den ersten Blick hat die Kategorie 'Aufrichtigkeit' mit der Kultur des 17. Jahrhunderts wenig gemein. Im Gegenteil, der Wunsch, die asthetischen Konventionen und die Kunstlichkeit der Zeichensysteme zu verlassen, gilt als Charakteristikum der historisch anschlieenden Epoche, die sich vom Barock vehement abzuheben suchte: der Aufklarung. Das Buch relativiert diese geistesgeschichtliche Trennung, indem es nach Formen und Strategien des Authentischen, Naturlichen und Unverstellten in der Literatur und den Kunsten, in Verhaltenslehren und Kulturgeschichte der Fruhen Neuzeit fragt. Im...
Auf den ersten Blick hat die Kategorie 'Aufrichtigkeit' mit der Kultur des 17. Jahrhunderts wenig gemein. Im Gegenteil, der Wunsch, die asthetische...
