Carnal hermeneutics / edited by Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor.

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Series: Perspectives in continental philosophyPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: x, 392 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780823265893 (pbk.) :
9780823265886 (hbk.) :

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LOC classification:

B105.B64

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Head to Foot -- Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor -- Why Carnal Hermeneutics? -- What Is Carnal Hermeneutics? -- Richard Kearney -- Mind the Gap: The Challenge of Matter -- Brian Treanor -- Rethinking the Flesh -- Rethinking Corpus -- Jean-Luc Nancy -- From the Limbs of the Heart to the Soul's Organs -- Jean-Louis Chr�etien -- A Tragedy and a Dream: Disability Revisited -- Julia Kristeva -- Incarnation and the Problem of Touch -- Michel Henry -- On the Phenomenon of Suffering -- Jean-Luc Marion -- Memory, History, Oblivion -- Paul Ricoeur -- Matters of Touch -- Skin Deep: Bodies Edging into Place -- Ed Casey -- Touched by Touching -- David Wood -- Umbilicus: Toward a Hermeneutics of Generational Difference -- Anne O'Byrne -- Getting in Touch: Aristotelian Diagnostics -- Emmanuel Alloa -- Between Vision and Touch: From Husserl to Merleau-Ponty -- Dermot Moran -- Biodiversity and the Diacritics of Life -- Ted Toadvine -- Divine Bodies -- The Passion According to Teresa of Avila -- Julia Kristeva.

Summary: "Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes "all the way down," carnal hermeneutics rejects the opposition of language to sensibility, word to flesh, text to body. In this volume, an impressive array of today's preeminent philosophers seek to interpret the surplus of meaning that arises from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world"--Summary: Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. 'Carnal Hermeneutics' provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations.

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Includes index.

Formerly CIP.

"Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes "all the way down," carnal hermeneutics rejects the opposition of language to sensibility, word to flesh, text to body. In this volume, an impressive array of today's preeminent philosophers seek to interpret the surplus of meaning that arises from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world"--

Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. 'Carnal Hermeneutics' provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations.

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