Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point of view, various breakdowns are worth analyzing for their own sake, and discussing them also opens up overlooked dimensions of our bodily constitution. This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived body—its normality and abnormality, health and sickness, its activity as well as its passivity. The contributors integrate phenomenological insights with discussions about bodily brokenness in philosophy, theology, medical science and literary theory. Phenomenology of the Broken Body demonstrates how the broken body sheds fresh light on the nuances of embodied experience in ordinary life and ultimately questions phenomenology’s preunderstanding of the body.
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This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived body—its normality and abnormality, health and sickness, its activity as well as its passivity.
IntroductionEspen Dahl, Cassandra Falke, Thor Eirik Eriksen Section I: Vulnerable Bodies1. Weakness and Passivity: Phenomenology of the Body after PaulEspen Dahl 2. The Vulnerable Body – Merleau-Ponty and PsychoanalysisStåle Finke3. Bodily Pain and the Breakdown of Language in Algerian Testimony and LiteratureAlexandra Megearu4. Framing Embodiment in Violent Narratives Cassandra FalkeSection II: Suffering Bodies5. Only Vulnerable Creatures Suffer: On Suffering, Embodiment and Existential HealthOla Sigurdson6. The Body Beyond Scientific Certainty – Brokenness, Uncanniness, AffectednessThor Eirik Eriksen7. No Way Out: A Phenomenology of PainChristian Grüny8. The Phenomenology of FatigueKatherine MorrisSection III: Recovery and Life´s Margins9. Suffering’s Double Disclosure and the Structure of Normality in ExperienceJames McGuirk10. Recovery as Re-attunement: Repairing the Body-World RelationshipDrew Leder11. Notes from a Heart AttackKevin Aho12. Broken PregnanciesTalia Welsh13. Dying Bodies and Dead Bodies: A Phenomenological Analysis of Dementia, Coma and Brain DeathFredrik Svenaeus
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ISBN
9781138616004
Publisert
2019-01-28
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Routledge
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485 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
250