Human Remains

Jonathan Strauss

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter... Lees meer

Science, Reason, Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary provides an introduction to a legacy of philosophical and social scientif... Lees meer

The New Wounded

Catherine Malabou

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contempora... Lees meer

Chagas Disease

François Delaporte

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• François Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and ... Lees meer

Writings on Medicine

Georges Canguilhem

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of norm... Lees meer

The New Wounded

Catherine Malabou

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contempora... Lees meer

Figures of Medicine

François Delaporte

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• What does the infamous face transplant in France in 2005 share with the examination of "swollen faces" in Latin America in the 1930s? What does blood ... Lees meer

Realizing the Witch

Richard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Benjamin Christensen's Häxan ( The Witch , 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analys... Lees meer

The Government of Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought a... Lees meer

The Ploy of Instinct

Kathleen Frederickson

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confessi... Lees meer

Affliction

Veena Das

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborh... Lees meer

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

Helmuth Plessner

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• The most important work by a key figure in German thought, Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human , originally published in 1928, app... Lees meer

Being Brains

Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that "we are our brains," which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by ... Lees meer

What's These Worlds Coming To?

Jean-Luc Nancy, Aurélien Barrau

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, bu... Lees meer

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

Anson Rabinbach

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift fro... Lees meer

The Government of Life

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought a... Lees meer

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

Helmuth Plessner

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• A modern classic, this powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment was first published in German in 1928 and now appears in English for the first... Lees meer

Knowledge of Life

Georges Canguilhem

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Francois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tre... Lees meer

Writings on Medicine

Georges Canguilhem

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of norm... Lees meer

The Helmholtz Curves

Henning Schmidgen

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of "lost time" by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth cent... Lees meer

Bruno LaTour in Pieces

Henning Schmidgen

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity th... Lees meer

Being Brains

Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms acros... Lees meer

Human Remains

Jonathan Strauss

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter... Lees meer

Bruno LaTour in Pieces

Henning Schmidgen

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity th... Lees meer