Living Across and Through Skins

Download or read book Living Across and Through Skins written by Shannon Sullivan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underscoring the continued relevance of Dewey's thought, Sullivan brings him into conversation with Continental philosophers - Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty - and feminist philosophers - Butler and Harding - to expand thinking about the body. Emphasizing topics such as the role of habit, the discursivity of bodies, communication and meaning, personal and cultural structures of gender, the improvement of bodily experience, and understandings of truth and objectivity, Living Across and Through Skins acknowledges the importance of the body's experience without placing it in opposition to psychological, cultural, and social aspects of human life.