Simulacra and Simulation

Jean Baudrillard

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
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The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World

Slavoj Zizek, F W J Von Schelling

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Idealism, the one who, for the first time, undermined ... Lees meer

Stately Bodies

Adriana Cavarero

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• Stately Bodies explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itsel... Lees meer

Power and Knowledge

Tamsyn Barton

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• Power and Knowledge charts a history of three ancient scientiae in the Roman Empire--astrology, medical prognosis, and physiognomy (the art of discern... Lees meer

Constructions of the Classical Body

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• Classical scholarship has traditionally neglected the prominence of the body in antiquity. Constructions of the Classical Body theorizes that the stud... Lees meer

The Pedagogical Contract

Yun Lee Too

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• The Pedagogical Contract explores the relationship between teacher and student and argues for ways of reconceiving pedagogy. It discloses this relatio... Lees meer

Staging Masculinity

Erik Gunderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• Performance was one of the five canonical branches of oratory in the classical period, but it presents special problems that distinguish it from conce... Lees meer

The Culture of the Body

Dalia Judovitz

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This int... Lees meer