Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture

Perspectives on Embodimentoffers multiple ways of conceptualizing human corporeality. These essays collectively defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects. A central premise of this collection is that a variety of perspectives is needed to illuminate the fluid, ever-changing features of human corporeality. This book not only explores what it means to be an embodied subject, but also encourages speculation about our future bodily incarnations.

Thomas J. Csordas is Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University Hubert L. Dreyfus is currently Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley Stuart E. Dreyfus is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley Tracy Fessenden teaches in the departments of Religious Studies, Women's Studies, and Humanities at Arizona State University Honi Fern Haber was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver David Couzens Hoy is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley Mark L. Johnson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon Sean P. O'Connell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut Kevin O'Neill is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Redlands in California John T. Sanders is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology Charles Shepherdson is a Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He teaches in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University, and is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program Thomas F. Tierney is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Concord College in Athens, West Virginia Gail Weiss is Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Graduate Program in the Human Sciences at The George Washington University