From Immanuel Kant to Postmodernism, this volume provides an unparalleled student resource: a wide-ranging collection of the essential works of more than 50 seminal thinkers in modern European philosophy.Acknowledgments.
Introduction. Foundations of a Theory of Body.
Part I. Phenomenological Formulations.
Edmund Husserl.
1. Material Things in Their Relation to the Aesthetic Body.
The Constitution of Psychic Reality Through the Body. (Edmund Husserl).
2. Soft, Smooth Hands: Husserl's Phenomenology of the Lived-Body. (Donn Welton).
3. The Zero-Point of Orientation: The Placement of the I in Perceived Space. (Elmar Holenstein).
Martin Heidegger.
4. Introduction to Being and Time.
Equipment, Action, and the World.
Dasein as Affective Responsiveness and as Understanding.
Seeing and Sight.
Hearing, Discourse and the Call of Care.
Hands.
On Hearing the Logos. (Martin Heidegger).
5. The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment. Heidegger's Thinking of Being. (David Michael Levin).
Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
6. Situating the Body.
The Lived Body.
The Body in its Sexual Being.
The Natural World and the Body.
(Maurice Merleau-Ponty).
7. Saturated Intentionality.
(Anthony J. Steinbock).
8. Flesh and Blood. A Proposed Supplement to Merleau-Ponty.
(Drew Leder).
Part II. Psycho- and Sociotropic Genealogical Analyses.
Jacques Lacan.
9. Towards a Genetic Theory of the Ego.
The See-saw of Desire. Jacques Lacan.
The Imaginaryl³*
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