{"product_id":"foreign-bodies-alphonso-lingis-9780415909891","title":"Foreign Bodies","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeign Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e analyzes how our culture elaborates for us the bodies we have by natural evolution. Calling on the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body, Alphonso Lingis explores forms of power, pleasure and pain, and libidinal identity.\u003cbr\u003e The book contrasts the findings of theory with the practice of the body as formulated in quite different kinds of language--the language of plastic art (the artwork body builders make of themselves), biography, anthropology and literature. Lingis explains how we experience our own powers of perception, our postures, attitudes, gestures and purposive action; how our susceptibility to pain and excitability by pleasure acquiesce in and resist the ways they are identified and manipulated today; how cultures code our sensuality with phallic and with fluid identities; how others dress appeals to and puts demands on us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alphonso Lingis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415909899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415909891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Alphonso Lingis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48174836187391,"sku":"9780415909891","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99d7f86f-a56c-4b6e-aaa6-19d0e37e0a0c.jpg?v=1771330846","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/foreign-bodies-alphonso-lingis-9780415909891","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}