Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies analyses how our culture elaborates our naturally evolved bodies. Lingis calls upon the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body to explore forms of power, pleasure and pain, and libidinal identity. The findings of theory are then contrasted with the practice of the body as found in quite different kinds of language - the language of plastic art (body building as the creation of an artwork), biography, anthropology and literature.This provocative book explains how we experience our own powers of perception, our postures, gestures and attitudes; how pain and pleasure are no longer what they once were; and how our sensuality is coded by identities that are either phallic or fluid. Importantly, Lingis illustrates how we make our bodies foreign to ourselves and envisages the sort of bodies we may become.Lingis, Alphonso is the author of 'Foreign Bodies' with ISBN 9780415909907 and ISBN 0415909902.