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Embodiments : from the body to the body politic /

"James R. Mensch is a professor of philosophy at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada."--Jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mensch, James R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2009.
Series:Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The intertwining: the recursion of the seer and the seen
  • Artificial intelligence and the phenomenology of flesh
  • Aesthetic education and the project of being human
  • The intertwining of incommensurables: Yann Martel's life of Pi
  • Flesh and the limits of self-making
  • Violence and embodiment
  • Excessive presence and the image
  • Politics and freedom
  • Sovereignty and alterity
  • Political violence
  • Public space
  • Sustaining the other: tolerance as a positive ideal
  • Forgiveness and incarnation.