Main entry:

Sparrow, Tom. aut

Title & Author:

Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology.

Publication:

Open Humanities Press 2015.

Description:

1 online resource (1 electronic resource (292 pages))

Series:

New Metaphysics

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword: After the flesh -- Introduction -- 1. Post-Dualist embodiment, with some theses on sensation -- 2. Synchronic bodies and environmental orientation -- 3. Perception, sensation, and the problem of violence -- 4. Sensibility, susceptibility, and the genesis of individuals -- 5. On aesthetic plasticity -- Conclusion: Plasticity and power.
English.

Summary:

Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as enemies in nearly every camp from empiricism to poststructuralism. Polyvalent, with an uncertain referent, and often overshadowed by intuition, perception, or cognition, sensation invites as much metaphysical speculation as it does dismissive criticism. The promise of sensation has certainly not been lost on the phenomenologists who have sought to 'rehabilitate' the concept. In Plastic Bodies, Tom Sparrow argues that the phenomenologists have not gone far enough, however. Alongside close readings of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, he digs into an array of ancient, modern, and contemporary texts in search of the resources needed to rebuild the concept of sensation after phenomenology. He begins to assemble a speculative aesthetics that is at once a realist theory of sensation and a philosophy of embodiment that breaks the form of the 'lived' body. Maintaining that the body is fundamentally plastic and that corporeal identity is constituted by a conspiracy of sensations, he pursues the question of how the body fits into/fails to fit into its aesthetic environment and what must be done to increase the body's power to act and exist.

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ISBN:

9781785420016
1785420011
9781785420214
1785420216
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9781785429916

Subject:

Philosophy (General)
Senses and sensation.
Phenomenology.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Sensation
Phénoménologie.
Sens et sensations.
Identité.
phenomenology.
identity.
senses.
sensation.
History of Western philosophy.
Humanities.
Phenomenology and Existentialism.
Philosophy.
Western philosophy, from c 1900.
Philosophy Movements Existentialism.
Merleau-Ponty
Levinas

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