Phenomenology of the broken body

Author(s)

• Dahl, Espen
• Falke, Cassandra
• Eriksen, Thor Eirik

Bibliographic Information

Phenomenology of the broken body

edited by Espen Dahl, Cassandra Falke, and Thor Eirik Eriksen

（Routledge research in phenomenology）

Routledge, 2019

• : hbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [232]-244

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point of view, various breakdowns are worth analyzing for their own sake, and discussing them also opens up overlooked dimensions of our bodily constitution. This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived body-its normality and abnormality, health and sickness, its activity as well as its passivity. The contributors integrate phenomenological insights with discussions about bodily brokenness in philosophy, theology, medical science and literary theory. Phenomenology of the Broken Body demonstrates how the broken body sheds fresh light on the nuances of embodied experience in ordinary life and ultimately questions phenomenology's preunderstanding of the body.

Table of Contents

Introduction Espen Dahl, Cassandra Falke, Thor Eirik Eriksen Section I: Vulnerable Bodies 1. Weakness and Passivity: Phenomenology of the Body after Paul Espen Dahl 2. The Vulnerable Body - Merleau-Ponty and Psychoanalysis Stale Finke 3. Bodily Pain and the Breakdown of Language in Algerian Testimony and Literature Alexandra Megearu 4. Framing Embodiment in Violent Narratives Cassandra Falke Section II: Suffering Bodies 5. Only Vulnerable Creatures Suffer: On Suffering, Embodiment and Existential Health Ola Sigurdson 6. The Body Beyond Scientific Certainty - Brokenness, Uncanniness, Affectedness Thor Eirik Eriksen 7. No Way Out: A Phenomenology of Pain Christian Gruny 8. The Phenomenology of Fatigue Katherine Morris Section III: Recovery and Lifes Margins 9. Suffering's Double Disclosure and the Structure of Normality in Experience James McGuirk 10. Recovery as Re-attunement: Repairing the Body-World Relationship Drew Leder 11. Notes from a Heart Attack Kevin Aho 12. Broken Pregnancies Talia Welsh 13. Dying Bodies and Dead Bodies: A Phenomenological Analysis of Dementia, Coma and Brain Death Fredrik Svenaeus

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Details

• NCID: BB2783698X
• ISBN:
  • 9781138616004
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 250 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB15809017