Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh

by Karmen MacKendrick

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Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. But just where, if at all, do words and bodies touch?

In a trio of paired chapters, each juxtaposing an illustrative story or case study to a theoretical exploration, MacKendrick examines three somatic figures of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823224074

ISBN13:9780823224074

Release Date:December 2004

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:215 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"

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Christian Books & Bibles Education & Reference Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Reference Religion Religion & Spirituality Theology

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