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Jean-Luc Nancy: Corpus (angol)

How ​have we thought the body? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the mystical body of Christ-all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy's masterwork.Corpus is a work of literary force at once phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its multiple orientations and approaches. In thirty-six brief sections, Nancy offers us at once an encyclopedia and a polemical program-reviewing classical takes on the corpusfrom Plato, Aristotle, and Saint Paul to Descartes, Hegel, Husserl, and Freud, while demonstrating that the mutations (technological, biological, and political) of our own culture have given rise to the need for a new understanding of the body. He not only tells the story of this cultural change but also explores the promise and responsibilities that such a new understanding entails.The long-awaited English translation is a bold,… (tovább)

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174 oldal · ISBN: 0823229610 · Fordította: Richard Rand

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The anxiety, the desire to see, touch, and eat the body of God, to be that
body and be nothing but that, forms the principle of Western (un)reason.
That's why the body, bodily, never happens, least of all when it's named and
convoked. For us, the body is always sacrificed: eucharist.

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Did we invent the sky for the sole purpose of making bodies
fall from it?

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Above all, don't suppose that we're through with this. Sin is no longer a
topic; we have saved our bodies, bodies of health, sports, and pleasure. But
this only aggravates the disaster, as we all know: because the body is ever
more fallen, the fall being further inward, more agonizing. „The body” is
our agony stripped bare.

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