The Body and Physical Difference

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• For years the subject of human disability has engaged those in the biological, social and cognitive sciences, while at the same time, it has been curi... Lees meer

Philodemus in Italy

Marcello Gigante

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• A lively and concise survey of current scholarship on difficult but fascinating texts by this Epicurean poet and philosopher Lees meer

The Body and Physical Difference

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• For years the subject of human disability has engaged those in the biological, social and cognitive sciences, while at the same time, it has been curi... Lees meer

Constructions of the Classical Body

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• Classical scholarship has traditionally neglected the prominence of the body in antiquity. Constructions of the Classical Body theorizes that the stud... Lees meer

Simulacra and Simulation

Jean Baudrillard

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This... Lees meer

Staging Masculinity

Erik Gunderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• Performance was one of the five canonical branches of oratory in the classical period, but it presents special problems that distinguish it from conce... Lees meer

The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World

Slavoj Zizek, F W J Von Schelling

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Idealism, the one who, for the first time, undermined ... Lees meer

Stately Bodies

Adriana Cavarero

• Paperback | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• Stately Bodies explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itsel... Lees meer

The Pedagogical Contract

Yun Lee Too

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
• The Pedagogical Contract explores the relationship between teacher and student and argues for ways of reconceiving pedagogy. It discloses this relatio... Lees meer