Embodied Selves

By: Stella Gonzalez-Arnal (Editor), Gill Jagger (Editor), Kathleen Lennon (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 2012 | Edition Number 1

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This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalLing the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions. Collectively the papers draw attention to aspects of embodiment which are not always centre stage in other debates, particularly issues of bodily vulnerability. They make clear, in considering the relation of bodies and selves, that more is at stake than social identity categories; but that what is at stake is, nonetheless, an inter-subjective making of the self. Utilizing theoretical and biographical material, key strands of contemporary thought are brought into conversation: the new materialism, poststructuralism and, importantly, phenomenology. The consequences for an embodied ethics and a corporeal political theory are considered. There is a substantial and accessible introduction placing the papers in the context of contemporary debates. Collectively, the volume marks a major development in philosophical and critical accounts of embodiment.

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List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Gender and Reproduction	p. 12
Biology and the Metaphysics of Sex Difference	p. 29
'All Human Beings Are Pregnant, Both in Body and in Soul': The Bisexual Imaginary in Plato's Symposium	p. 46
Personal Identity and Transsexual Narratives	p. 66
The Embodiment of Cultural Identity	p. 84
This Body Which Is Not Mine: The Notion of the Habit Body, Prostitution and (Dis)embodiment	p. 101
Turned into Body by the Other	p. 119
Disability and the Thinking Body	p. 139
Hearing Deafness: Subjectness, Articulateness and Communicability	p. 160
The Voice of Pain: The Semiotic and Embodied Subjectivity	p. 180
Hospitality and 'the Gift of Life': Reconfiguring the Other in Heart Transplantation	p. 196
Embodied Subjectivity, Power and Resistance: Bourdieu and Butler on the Problem of Determinism	p. 209
Suffering, Silence and Social Weightlessness: Honneth and Bourdieu on Embodiment and Power	p. 230
Index	p. 249
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