Corpus

Name: Corpus
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ISBN: 9780823229628

ISBN-10: 0823229629

ISBN-13: 9780823229628

Edition: 3rd 2008

Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy, Richard A. Rand

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How have we thought "the body"? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the "mystical body of Christ"-all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy's masterwork. Corpus is a work of literary force at once phenomenogical, sociological, theological and philosophical in its multiple orientations and approaches. In his thirty-six brief chapters, Nancy offers us at once an encyclopedia and a polemical program--reviewing classical takes on the "corpus", from Plato and Saint Paul, to Descartes, Hegel, Husserl, and Freud, while demonstrating that the mutations (technological,…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Translator's Note


Corpus


On the Soul


The Extension of the Soul


Antonia Birnbaum: To Exist Is to Exit the Point


Fifty-eight Indices on the Body


The Intruder


Notes