The Body: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy)

From Immanuel Kant to Postmodernism, this volume provides an unparalleled student resource: a wide-ranging collection of the essential works of more than 50 seminal thinkers in modern European philosophy. Pt.1. Phenomenological Formulations. Mterial Things In Their Relation To The Aesthetic Body -- The Constitution Of Psychic Reality Through The Body / Edmund Husserl -- Soft, Smooth Hands : Husserl's Phenomenology Of The Lived-body / Donn Welton -- The Zero-point Of Orientation : The Placement Of The I In Perceived Space / Elmar Holenstein -- Introduction To Being And Time -- Equipment, Actioan, And The World -- Dasein As Affective Responsiveness Ans As Understanding -- Seeing And Sight -- Hearing, Discourse, And The Call Of Care -- Hands -- On Hearind The Logos / Marint Heidegger -- The Ontological Dimenstion Of Embodimetn : Heidigger's Thinking Of Being / David Michael Levin -- Situating The Body -- The Lived Body -- The Body In It Sexual Being -- The Natural World And The Body / Maurice Merleau-ponty -- Saturates Intentionality / Anthony J. Steinbock -- Flesh And Blood : A Propsed Supplement To Merleau-ponty / Drew Leder -- (cont.) Pt.2. Psycho- And Sociotropic Genealogical Analyses. Towards A Genetic Theory Of The Body -- The See-saw Of Desire -- The Imaginary, The Sybolic, And The Body -- Anamorphosis / Jacques Laca -- The Status And Significance Of The Body In Lacan's Imaginary And Sybolic Orders / Charles W. Bonner -- Discipline And Punsish -- The History Of Sexualtiy / Michel Foucalt -- The Subjectification Of The Body / Alphonso Lingis -- Foucault And The Paradix Of Bodily Inscriptions / Judithe Butler -- Pt.3. Towards A Semiotics Of The Gendered Body. Subject And Body -- On The Meaning Of Drives / Julia Kristeva -- The Lesh Become Word : The Body In Kristeva's Theory / Kelly Oliver -- Female Desire / Luce Irigary -- Beyond Sex And Gender : On Luce Irigaray's The Sex Which Is Not One / Tina Chanter. Edited And Introduced By Donn Welton. Series Numbering From List In Later Volume. Includes Bibliographical References. This new reader provides an unparalleled collection of foundational twentieth century texts on the concept of the body.The concept of the body has emerged as one of the most important areas of recent philosophy. Continental thinkers, beginning with the phenomenologists, began to rethink this important concept and to develop alternatives to reducing the body to its physical or biological characterization. The volume includes selections from: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Donn Welton, Elmar Holenstein, David Levin, Hubert Dreyfus, Piotr Hoffman, Anthony Steinbock, Drew Leder, Jacques Lacan, Michael Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Carl Bonner, Alphonso Lingis, Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, Kelly Oliver, and Tina Chanter.Body will be of interest to all readers studying philosophy of the body, philosophical psychology, and gender studies. It will be of particular interest to philosophers seeking a deeper understanding of how the concept of the body has developed in the continental tradition. Our entire analysis has been moving in a determinate narrow frame, the limits of which we must fix.