Perspectives On Embodiment: The Intersections Of Nature And Culture

Published in 1999 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Copyright © 1999 by Routledge Text Design by Debora Hilu All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perspectives on embodiment: the intersections of nature and culture/Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber, editors p. cm. Papers “inspired by an NEH summer Seminar on Embodiment…held at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the summer of 1994”—Introd. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-91585-6 (hardcover: alk. paper).—ISBN 0-415-91586-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Body image—Congresses. 2. Body schema—Congresses. I. Weiss, Gail, 1959– . II. Haber, Honi Fern, 1958–1995. BF697.5.B63P47 1999 128’.6–dc21 98–22730 CIP ISBN 0-203-90525-3 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-90618-7 (Adobe eReader Format) CONTENTS Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Part 1. Identifying Bodies and Bodily Identifications one Critical Resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu David Couzens Hoy two three four The Soul of America: Whiteness and the Disappearing of Bodies in the Progressive Era Tracy Fessenden 23 The Abject Borders of the Body Image Gail Weiss 41 Claiming One’s Identity: A Constructivist/Narrativist Approach Sean P.O’Connell 61 Part 2. Embodied Mind: Phenomenological Approaches to Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Anthropology five Embodied Reason Mark L.Johnson six seven eight 3 81 The Challenge of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Embodiment for Cognitive Science Hubert L.Dreyfus and Stuart E.Dreyfus 103 Affordances: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy John T.Sanders 121 Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology Thomas J.Csordas 143 iii Contents Part 3. Rewriting the History of the Body nine Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism Martin Jay 165 The Epoch of the Body: Need and Demand in Kojève and Lacan Charles Shepherdson 183 Disciplining the Dead Kevin O’Neill 213 The Preservation and Ownership of the Body Thomas F.Tierney 233 ten eleven twelve iv Contributors 262 Index 265 For Honi PREFACE Honi Fern Haber, the co-editor of this anthology, died of cancer on December 22, 1995. She was thirty-seven years old. Honi was granted tenure in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado, Denver the spring before she died, and a library has been established in the Philosophy Department there in her name. This book is the last work to which her name will be attached, and its publication was very important to her. In fact, this anthology was her idea. She conceived the project during the 1994 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute we both participated in, entitled, “Embodiment: The Intersection between Nature and Cultu