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Bodies in Transition

Dissolving the Boundaries of Embodied Knowledge

Dietrich Boschung, Alan Shapiro, Frank Wascheck, Frank Waschek (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

372 Seiten

2015 | 2019
Brill | Fink (Verlag)
978-3-7705-5808-7 (ISBN)

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This volume deals with the dissolution of the concept of the ideal body as a repository of knowledge through instances of deformation or hybridization The starting point comprises a series of case studies of less than perfect bodies: bodies that are misshapen, stigmatized, fragmented, as well as hybrid human/animal creatures, transgendered persons, and bodies on the cultural periphery of the classical world. These examples represent deviations from the »normal« order of things and evoke feelings of alienation. One strategy for dealing with this is to canonize transgression in visual form. Fluid bodies are captured in the image, creating a visual order in disorder. The body-as-ruin is a fixed figure of fluidity and thus receptive to attributions of meaning, which helps explain its persistence as a cultural trope. It allows for the observation of cultural change.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.7.2015
Reihe/Serie	Morphomata ; 23
Co-Autor	Alan Shapiro, Marcello Barbanera, Jan N. Bremmer, Annetta Alexandridis, Francois Lissarrague, Eric R. Varner, Despoina Tsiafaki, Hans Bernsdorff, Véronique Dasen, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Helen King
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	157 x 233 mm
Gewicht	870 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Alienation • body-as-ruin • cultural periphery • Deformation • Dissolution • Fragmentation • Hybridization • ideal body • Knowledge • Körper (menschl.) • Normal • Stigma • Transgender • Transgression • Wissen
ISBN-10	3-7705-5808-1 / 3770558081
ISBN-13	978-3-7705-5808-7 / 9783770558087
Zustand	Neuware