Revealing Bodies

Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

Autor: Erin M. Goss

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Bucknell University Press

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Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what k...

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Autor

Erin M. Goss

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2014

strony

238

EAN

9781611485929

ISBN

1611485924

Enbook ID

04838191

Wydawca

Bucknell University Press

Waga

348

Wymiary

225 x 148 x 17

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Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding of our own bodies? Focusing on the tension between particularity and generality that inheres in intellectual discourse about the body, Revealing Bodies explores the disconnection between the body understood as a general form available to knowledge and the body experienced as particularly one's own. Erin Goss locates this division in contemporary bodily exhibits, such as Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds, and in eighteenth-century anatomical discourse. Her readings of the corporeal aesthetics of Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, William Blake's cosmological depiction of the body's origin in such works as The [First] Book of Urizen, and Mary Tighe's reflection on the relation between love and the soul in Psyche; or, The Legend of Love demonstrate that the idea of the body that grounds knowledge in an understanding of anatomy emerges not as fact but as fiction. Ultimately, Revealing Bodies describes how thinkers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and bodily exhibitions in the twentieth and twenty-first call upon allegorized figurations of the body to conceal the absence of any other available means to understand that which is uniquely our own: our existence as bodies in the world.

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