The Culture of the Body
THE BODY, IN THEORY
Histories of Cultural Materialism
The Subject as Action: Transformation...
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The Culture of the Body
THE BODY, IN THEORY
Histories of Cultural Materialism
The Subject as Action: Transformation and Totality in Narrative Aesthetics by Alan Singer Power and Knowledge: Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire by Tamsyn S. Barton Under the Sign: John Bargrave as Collector, Traveler, and Witness by Stephen Bann Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Sheila Faria Glaser The Deluge, the Plague: Paolo Uccello by Jean Louis Schefer, translated by Torn Conley Philodemus in Italy: The Books from Herculaneum by Marcello Gigante, translated by Dirk Obbink The Tremulous Private Body: Essays on Subjection by Francis Barker Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation Materiality by Karen Pinkus The Gay Critic by Hubert Fichte, translated by Kevin Gavin The Abyss of Freedom / Ages of the World by Slavoj Zizek I F. W. J. von Schelling, translated by Judith Norman The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability edited by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder Constructions of the Classical Body edited by James 1. Porter An Utterly Dark Spot: Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy by Miran Bozovic The Pedagogical Contract: The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World by Yun Lee Too Cutting the Body: Representing Woman in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis by Eliane DalMolin Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World by Erik Gunderson Culture of the Body: Geneologies of Modernity by Dalia Judovitz
The Culture of the Body Genealogies of Modernity
Dalia Judovitz
Ann Arbor
The University of Michigan Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Judovitz, Dalia. The culture of the body: genealogies of modernity / Dalia Judovitz. p. cm. - (The body, in theory) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-472-09742-3 (acid-free paper) - ISBN 0-472-06742-7 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 1. Body, Human (Philosophy)-France-History. 2. Philosophy, Modern. 3. Body, Human in literature. 4. French literatureHistory and criticism. I. Title. II. Series. B1809.B62 J83 2000 128' .6'0944-dc21 00-009179 CIP ISBN13 978-0-472-09742-5 (cloth) ISBN13 978-0-472-06742-8 (paper) ISBN13 978-0-472-02321-9 (electronic)
To Erna Judovits
In Memoriam
What is most surprising is rather the body; one never ceases to be amazed at the idea that the human body has become possible. -FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Acknowledgments
This project was inspired by the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault. This volume also marks the untimely passing of JeanFran