商品簡介
Doyle (English, U. of Massachusetts) presents ten essays that use the theories of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (on the relation of the body to the world) as a springboard to examine a raft of social and political issues. Among the topics covered are the way that victims of torture attempt to reclaim the debased body away from the torture, the foundational concepts of absent versus present bodies in the social contract theory of Rousseau and Rawls, the ontological concepts of J.W. Goethe as a predecessor to the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, and cultural analysis of the body as related to race and colonialism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Laura Doyle is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture received the George and Barbara Perkins Prize from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. She is also the recipient of an ACLS Fellowship and a Rockefeller Fellowship.
