Sartre scholars and others engage with Jean-Paul Sartre's descriptions of thehuman body, bringing him into dialogue with feminists, sociologists, psychologists and historians and asking: What is pain? Do men and women experience their bodies differently? How do society and culture shape our bodies? Can we re-shape them? INDICE: Preface and Acknowledgements - Series Editor's Preface - Permissions - Notes on Contributors - Abbreviations - Introduction: Sartre on the Body;K.J.Morris - PART I: CONTEXT AND CLARIFICATION - The Body and the Book: Reading Being and Nothingness ; J.S.Catalano - Husserl, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty onEmbodiment, Touch, and the 'Double Sensation'; D.Moran - Sartre and the LivedBody: Negation, Non-Positional Self-Awareness, and Hodological Space; A.Mirvish - Sartre and Marcel on Embodiment: Reevaluating Traditional and GynocentricFeminisms; C.Mui - PART II: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT - Representing Bodies; Q.Cassam - Resisting Sartrean Pain: Henry, Sartre and Biranism; M.G.Peckitt - Sartreand Death: Forgetting the Mortal Body in Being and Nothingness ; C.Howells - Sexual Paradigms; R.C.Solomon - Some Patterns of Identification and Otherness;P.S.Morris - PART III: CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION - The Phenomenology of Clumsiness; K.J.Morris - Sartre and Fanon on Embodied Bad Faith; L.R.Gordon - Sartre in the Company of Merleau-Ponty, Foucault and Duden; M.Langer - The Body and Society: Sartre and the Sociologists; N.Crossley - The Socially Shaped Bodyand the Critique of Corporeal Experience; E.A.Behnke - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21967-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés