Lingis, Alphonso
Foreign Bodies
- ISBN 13:
- 9780415909907
- author:
- Lingis, Alphonso
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1994
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.3 x 1.7 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Popular Culture,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Foreign Bodies by Alphonso Lingis explores how our culture shapes our understanding of the body through natural evolution. Lingis examines the relationship between power, pleasure and pain, and libidinal identity, drawing on various forms of language such as plastic art, biography, anthropology, and literature to contrast theory with practice. He considers how we experience our perceptions, postures, attitudes, gestures, and actions, as well as our susceptibility to pain and excitability by pleasure. The book delves into how cultures code our sensuality with phallic and fluid identities, and how others' appearances influence us.
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