The Body Problematic : Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault / Laura Hengehold.
The Body Problematic : Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault / Laura Hengehold.
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University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2007.
Date
2007.
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N193/216
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English
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viii, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: imagination and problematization -- The political topology of Kantian reason -- Man and his doubles: two ways to problematize -- Locked in the market -- Afterword: not similar to something, just similar.
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Publisher
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2007.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
2007.
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"Following Kant through all of Foucault's major works, this book shows how bodies functioned as "problematic objects" in which the limits of post-Enlightenment European power and discourse were imaginatively figured and unified. It suggests ways that readers in a neoliberal political order can detach from the imaginative schemes vested in the bodie...
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The Body Problematic : Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault / Laura Hengehold.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N193/216
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0271032111 (hbk.) :
9780271032115 (hbk.) :
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193
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991023320189702626