Fragments for a history of the human body
By: edited by Michel Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi.
Contributors: Feher, Michel.; Naddaff, Ramona.; Tazi, Nadia.
Series: Zone ;; 3-5; Zone (Series) ;; 3-5.
Publisher: Zone; Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Body, Human -- Religious aspects; Body, Human (Philosophy); Body, Human
Description: "The first approach can be called vertical since what is explored here is the human body's relationship to the divine, to the bestial and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. The second approach covers the various junctures between the body's "outside" and "inside": it can therefore be called a "psychosomatic" approach, studying the manifestation - or production - of soul and the expression of emotions through the body's attitudes, and, on another level, the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain and death. Finally, the third approach ... brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how a certain organ or bodily substance can be used to justify or challenge the way human society functions ..."--Foreword Part 3.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.