Carnal hermeneutics /edited by Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor.

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9780823265916
9780823265923
9780823266951

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Electronic Books.

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B105 .C376 2015

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Contents:

Introduction: Carnal Hermeneutics from Head to Foot / Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor -- Why Carnal Hermeneutics? -- The Wager of 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 Chrétien -- 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 / Edward S. 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 -- Refiguring Wounds in the Afterlife (of Trauma) / Shelly Rambo -- This Is My Body: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Eucharist / Emmanuel Falque -- Original Breath / Karmen KacKendrick -- On the Flesh of the Word: Incarnational Hermeneutics / John Panteleimon Manoussakis.

Subject: "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"--

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"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"--

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