Foreign Bodies

by Alphonso Lingis

Book Overview

Foreign Bodies analyzes how our culture elaborates for us the bodies we have by natural evolution. Calling on the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body, Alphonso Lingis explores forms of power, pleasure and pain, and libidinal identity.
The book contrasts the findings of theory with the practice of the body as formulated in quite different kinds of language--the language of plastic art (the artwork...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415909902
• ISBN13: 9780415909907
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary