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The Gift of Touch: Embodying the Good

The Gift of Touch: Embodying the Good


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Traces Western ideas of corporeal bodies from Plato to contemporary feminist and postructuralist writings, with the purpose of reexamining the good, identified in Plato as that which gives authority to knowledge and truth.

Table of Contents:
(Abridged) General Preface to the Project: The Gift of the Good Introduction: Touching the Body of the Good 1. Mortal Bodies 2 Magic Bodies 3. Natural Bodies 4. Rational Bodies 5. Expressive Bodies 6. Prehensive Bodies 7. Fleshy Bodies 8. Disciplined Bodies 9. Full Bodies 10. Exposed Bodies 11. Fluid Bodies 12. Subject Bodies 13. Engendered Bodies 14. Queer Bodies 15. Surplus Bodies 16. Earthly Bodies Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Stephen David Ross is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Binghamton. He is the author of The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art and The Gift of Truth: Gathering the Good, as well as other books published by SUNY Press.

Review :
"Stephen David Ross has a special talent for pursuing the ramifications of a given topic, here the human body in its flesh and tactility, into the most engaging corridors of discussion. He takes generous account of the most important work that has been done on the body from Plato, Spinoza, and Whitehead through Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Guattari, Butler, Grosz, Lingis, and others. At the same time, he sets their work within the framework of his own evolving thought, especially that which bears on 'plenishment,' that is, the intersection of cherishment and sacrifice. He asks, 'How long before we care for abundance?' He sees abundance as 'given from the good' and thus as something that resists ethical and political neutrality. Coming to terms with the many kinds of body-expressive, fleshy, disciplined, exposed, engendered, queer, etc.-allows us to revise our sense of the good and to bring it down to earth in attentive and effective ways. His moving conclusion is that 'the infinite unfolding and refolding of corporeal bodies is plenishment in the earth, for the sake of the good, in memory of abundance.' This is a strikingly sensitive and illuminatingly original work." - Edward S. Casey, State University of New York at Stony Brook


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791438749
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 389
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 598 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0791438740
  • Publisher Date: 03 Sep 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Embodying the Good
  • Width: 152 mm


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