The Body Problematic

The Body Problematic
Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 338
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780271032122
ISBN-13 : 027103212X
Rating : 4/5 (12X Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Body Problematic by : Laura Hengehold

Download or read book The Body Problematic written by Laura Hengehold and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in life, Foucault identified with &“the critical tradition of Kant,&” encouraging us to read both thinkers in new ways. Kant&’s &“Copernican&” strategy of grounding knowledge in the limits of human reason proved to stabilize political, social-scientific, and medical expertise as well as philosophical discourse. These inevitable limits were made concrete in historical structures such as the asylum, the prison, and the sexual or racial human body. Such institutions built upon and shaped the aesthetic judgment of those considered &“normal.&” Following Kant through all of Foucault&’s major works, this book shows how bodies functioned as &“problematic objects&” in which the limits of post-Enlightenment European power and discourse were imaginatively figured and unified. It suggests ways that readers in a neoliberal political order can detach from the imaginative schemes vested in their bodies and experiment normatively with their own security needs.


The Body Problematic Related Books

The Body Problematic
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Laura Hengehold
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-30 - Publisher: Penn State Press

GET EBOOK

Late in life, Foucault identified with &“the critical tradition of Kant,&” encouraging us to read both thinkers in new ways. Kant&’s &“Copernican&” st
Mind-Body Problems
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: John Horgan
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-16 - Publisher: Independently Published

GET EBOOK

Science journalist John Horgan presents a radical new perspective on the mind-body problem and related issues such as consciousness, free will, morality and the
Body Problematic
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Laura Hengehold
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press

GET EBOOK

The Three-Body Problem
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Cixin Liu
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-11 - Publisher: Tor Books

GET EBOOK

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America “A mind-bending epi
My Body
Language: en
Pages: 149
Authors: Emily Ratajkowski
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-09 - Publisher: Metropolitan Books

GET EBOOK

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult