Carnal Hermeneutics
Carnal Hermeneutics
Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy
Daum Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies
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Abstract
Building on a tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misread, or underdeveloped, this book initiates a focus on carnal hermeneutics as such, as distinct field of study and concern. Carnal hermeneutics seeks to provide a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. It begins with the recognition that human existence requires an art of understanding as well as a science of explanation. The former is rooted in our finite, spatio-temporal being-in-the-world, which calls for an account of meanings involving corporeal sensation, orientation, and linguistic articulation. The resulting hermeneutics transcends the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, arguing that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Therefore, carnal hermeneutics truly goes “all the way down,” rejecting the opposition of language and sensibility, word to flesh, text to body. The essays collected in this volume are committed, each it its own way, to the interpreting the surplus of meaning arising from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Carnal Hermeneutics from Head to Foot
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Why Carnal Hermeneutics?
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Rethinking the Flesh
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Matters of Touch
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Skin Deep: Bodies Edging into Place
Edward S. Casey
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Touched by Touching
David Wood
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Umbilicus: Toward a Hermeneutics of Generational Difference
Anne O’Byrne
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Getting in Touch: Aristotelian Diagnostics
Emmanuel Alloa
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Between Vision and Touch: From Husserl to Merleau-Ponty
Dermot Moran
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Biodiversity and the Diacritics of Life
Ted Toadvine
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Skin Deep: Bodies Edging into Place
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Divine Bodies
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The Passion According to Teresa of Avila
Julia Kristeva
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Refiguring Wounds in the Afterlife (of Trauma)
Shelly Rambo
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This Is My Body: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Eucharist
Emmanuel Falque
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Original Breath
Karmen Mackendrick
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On the Flesh of the Word: Incarnational Hermeneutics
John Panteleimon Manoussakis
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The Passion According to Teresa of Avila
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End Matter
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