The Body in Theory

The Body in Theory
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9781476678559
ISBN-13 : 1476678553
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Book Synopsis The Body in Theory by : Becky R. McLaughlin

Download or read book The Body in Theory written by Becky R. McLaughlin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body has always had the potential to unsettle us with its strange exigencies and suppurations, its demands and desires, and thus throughout the ages, it has continued to be a subject of interest and obsession. This collection of twelve peer-reviewed essays on Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault interrogates the body in all of its beauty...and with all of its blights and blemishes. Written by a diverse body of scholars--art historians, cultural theorists, English professors, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and sociologists from North America and Europe--these essays bring into conversation two intellectual giants frequently seen as antagonists, and thus rarely seen together. Topics covered include: the intersections of Foucault and Lacan and how they bring to light new thoughts on the senses, the self-destructive body, ableism and disability in Guillermo del Toro's film The Shape of Water, body image and the ego, selfie-culture, and metamorphosis in Ottessa Moshfegh's novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation, among others.


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