An utterly dark spot
Subtitle: gaze and body in early modern philosophy
By: Miran Božovič
Series: The body, in theory
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Body, Human (Philosophy)
Description: "An Utterly Dark Spot examines the elusive status of the body in early modern European philosophy by examining the body's various encounters with the gaze. The range of this work is impressive, moving from the Greek philosophers and theorists of the body to early modern thinkers to modern figures such as Jon Elster, Lacan, Althusser, Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen J. Gould, and others.

Miran Bozovic provides glimpses into various foreign mentalities haunted by problems of divinity, immortality, creation, nature, and desire, provoking insights that invert familiar assumptions about the relationship between mind and body."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-139)
Table of contents: title: The God of the transvestites; title: A brief history of insects; title: Before the first sight; title: The rebellion of the body; title: Occasionalism and madness; title: An utterly dark spot