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Fragments for a history of the human body

Title

Fragments for a history of the human body / edited by Michel Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi.

Format

Book

Published

New York, N.Y. : Zone ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, c1989.

Description

3 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Other contributors

Feher, Michel. Naddaff, Ramona. Tazi, Nadia.

Uniform series

Zone (Series) ; 3-5.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Michel Feher
• Dim body, dazzling body
• Jean-Pierre Vernant
• The body of engenderment in the Hebrew Bible, the rabbinic tradition and the Kabbalah / Charles Mopsik
• Indian speculations about the sex of sacrifice / Charles Malamoud
• The body: the Daoist's coat of arms / Jean Levi
• Divine image - prison of flesh : perceptions of the body in ancient Gnosticism / Michael A. Williams
• The face of Christ, the form of the church / Marie-Jose Baudinet
• Antirrhetic II / Nicephorus the Patriarch
• The female body and religious practice in the later Middle Ages / Caroline Walker Bynum
• The consecrated host : a wondrous excess / Piero Camporesi
• Holbein's dead Christ / Julia Kristeva
• Hungry ghosts and hungry people : somaticity and reationality in medieval Japan / William R. LaFleur
• Metamorphosis and lycanthropy in Franche-Comte, 1521-1643 / Caroline Oates
• The chimera herself / Ginevra Bompiani
• The inanimate incarnate / Roman Paska
• On the marionette theatre / Heinrich von Kleist
• The classical age of automata : an impressionistic survey from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century / Jean-Claude Beaune
• Forward
• Therefore, Socrates is immortal / Nicole Loraux
• Reflections of a soul / Eric Alliez & Michel Feher
• The face and the soul / Patrizia Magli
• The ethics of gesture / Jean-Claude Schmitt
• The upward training of the body from the age of chivalry to courtly civility / Georges Vigarello
• Geerewol : the art of seduction / Carol Beckwith
• Love's rewards / Rene Nelli
• Between clothing and nudity / Mario Perniola
• Tales of Shen and Xin : body-person and heart-mind in China during the last 150 years / Mark Elvin
• The natural and literary history of bodily sensation / Jean Starobinski
• Some simple reflections on the body / Paul Valery
• The three-body problem and the end of the world / Hillel Schwarts
• The ghost in the machine : religious healing and representations of the body in Japan / Mary Picone
• The end of the body / Jonathan Parry
• Celestial bodies : a few stops on the way to heaven / Nadia Tazi
• Forward
• Head or heart? the political use of body metaphors in the Middle Ages / Jacques le Goff
• The art of pulling teenth in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries : from public martyrdom to private nightmare and political struggle / David Kunzle
• "Amor Veneris, vel Dulcedo Appeletur" / Thomas W. Laqueur
• Subtle bodies / Giulia Sissa
• Semen and blood : some ancient theories concerning their genesis and relationship / Francoise Heritier-Auge
• Upanisad of the embryo
• Note on the garbha-upanisad / Lakshmi Kapani
• Bodily images in Melanesia : cultural substances and natural metaphors / Bruce M. Knauft with photographs by Eileen M. Cantrell
• Older women, stout-hearted women, women of substance / Francoise Heritier-Auge
• Personal status and sexual practice in the Roman Empire / Aline Rousselle
• The social evil, the solitary vice and pouring tea / Thomas W. Lacqueur
• The bio-economics of Our Mutual Friend / Catherine Gallagher
• The meaning of sacrifice / Christian Duverger
• The sacrificial body of the king / Luc de Heusch
• The emperor-god's other body / Florence Dupont
• The body-of-power and incarnation at Port Royal and in Pascal or of the figurability of the political absolute / Louis Marin
• Mapping the body / Mark Kidel & Susan Rowe-Leete
• A repertory of body history / Barbara Duden.

Kinsey subjects

Sex in religion. Sex research. Social ethics history.

ISBN

0942299256 (cloth : v. 1) 9780942299250 (cloth : v. 1) 094229923X (pbk. : v. 1) 9780942299236 (pbk. : v. 1) 0942299264 (cloth : v. 2) 9780942299267 (cloth : v. 2) 0942299248 (pbk. : v. 2) 9780942299243 (pbk. : v. 2) 0942299280 (paper : pt. 3) 9780942299281 (paper : pt. 3) 0942299272 (cloth : pt. 3) 9780942299274 (cloth : pt. 3)