Isbn: 9780812692587 - the roots of power: animate form and gendered bodies (6 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This interdisciplinary work demonstrates, by steadfast attention to corporeal matters of fact, how the concept of power and of power relations is rooted in bodily life, in animate form. It first shows how Foucault's 'optics of power' is Sartre's 'The Look' writ large, and proceeds to explain how optics of power are undergirded by a 'power of optics' which has its roots in our primate evolutionary heritage. The exploration of an evolutionary genealogy leads in turn into extended examinations and exemplifications of corporeal and intercorporeal archetypes. Moving easily through biological, anthropological and psychological domains, and informed by keen philosophical reflection, 'The Roots of Power' aims to show how the personal and political are fundamentally joined in the body, that is, how the political defines us both as creatures of a natural history and as culturally - and individually - groomed bearers of meaning. Sheets-Johnstone assesses the complex of topics that progressively surfaces such as females' being receptive 'year-round', male threat/female vulnerability, Sartre's characterisation of females' being 'in the form of a hole', and proposed relationships between aggression and sex.…

Zustand: New. An interdisciplinary work aiming to demonstrate, by steadfast attention to corporeal matters of fact, how the concept of power and power relations is rooted in bodily life, in animate form. It moves through biological, anthropological and psychological area.