Beliefs, Bodies, And Being

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Overview

InBelief, Bodies, and Being, twelve distinguished contributors present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on feminist issues of embodiement, materialism, and agency from feminist and postmodernist philosophical perspectives. Beginnning by positing non-traditional ways of approaching ontological concerns (through the acknowledgement of agential realties and the usage of an ontology of tropes), the volume concludes by addressing highly specific, culturally constituted types of postmodern bodies (monstrous, anorexic, and pharmaceutical bodies).

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780742514157
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/1/2006
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 232
  • Product dimensions: 0.53 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 6.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Kathleen Earle is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland, College Park. Eileen Kahl works in the Philosophy and Women's Studies departments at the University of South Florida. Deborah Orr teaches in the Division of Humanities at York University in Toronto. Linda Lopez-McAlister is Professor Emerita at the University of South Florida.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Thinking Through the Body: An Introduction to Beliefs, Bodies and Being Chapter 4 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Chapter 5 Monstrous Reflections on the Mirror of the Self-Same Chapter 6 Ontology and Feminism Chapter 7 Diotima, Wittgenstein and a Language for Liberation Chapter 8 Re-situating the Feminine in Contemporary French Philosophy Chapter 9 Being and Time, Non-Being and Space... Introductory Notes Toward an Ontological Stude of 'Women' Chapter 10 To Take a Chance with Meaning under the Veil of Words: Transpositions, Mothers and Learning in Julia Kristeva's Theory of Language Chapter 11 In Search of the Body in the Cave: Luce Irigaray's Ethics of Embodiment Chapter 12 Reconsidering the Notion of the Body in Anti-essentialism, With the Help of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler Chapter 13 Butler's Sophisticated Constructivism: A Critical Assessment Chapter 14 A Critique of Feminist Radical Constructionism Chapter 15 Applying Time to Feminist Philosophy of the Body Chapter 16 Contributors Chapter 17 Index

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