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Author | : Cressida J. Heyes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2007-08-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019029504X |
Heyes' monograph in feminist philosophy is on the connection between the idea of "normalization"--which per Foucault is a mode or force of control that homogenizes a population--and the gendered body. Drawing on Foucault and Wittgenstein, she argues that the predominant picture of the self--a picture that presupposes an "inner" core of the self that is expressed, accurately or not, by the outer body--obscures the connection between contemporary discourses and practices of self-transformation and the forces of normalization. In other words, pictures of the self can hold us captive when they are being read from the outer self--the body--rather than the inner self, and we can express our inner self by working on our outer body to conform. Articulating this idea with a mix of the theoretical and the practical, she looks at case studies involving transgender people, weight-loss dieting, and cosmetic surgery. Her concluding chapters look at the difficult issue of how to distinguish non-normalizing practices of the self from normalizing ones, and makes suggestions about how feminists might conceive of subjects as embodied and enmeshed in power relations yet also capable of self-transformation. The subject of normalization and its relationship to sex/gender is a major one in feminist theory; Heyes' book is unique in her masterful use of Foucault; its clarity, and its sophisticated mix of the theoretical and the anecdotal. It will appeal to feminist philosophers and theorists.
Author | : David Shulman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2002-04-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195349334 |
This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world, however it is understood, in highly expressive and specific ways. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays--by such distinguished scholars as Wai-yee Li, Janet Gyatso, Wendy Doniger, Christiano Grottanelli, Charles Malamoud, Margalit Finkelberg, and Moshe Idel--study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.
Author | : Cressida J. Heyes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2007-08-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019804240X |
Heyes' monograph in feminist philosophy is on the connection between the idea of "normalization"--which per Foucault is a mode or force of control that homogenizes a population--and the gendered body. Drawing on Foucault and Wittgenstein, she argues that the predominant picture of the self--a picture that presupposes an "inner" core of the self that is expressed, accurately or not, by the outer body--obscures the connection between contemporary discourses and practices of self-transformation and the forces of normalization. In other words, pictures of the self can hold us captive when they are being read from the outer self--the body--rather than the inner self, and we can express our inner self by working on our outer body to conform. Articulating this idea with a mix of the theoretical and the practical, she looks at case studies involving transgender people, weight-loss dieting, and cosmetic surgery. Her concluding chapters look at the difficult issue of how to distinguish non-normalizing practices of the self from normalizing ones, and makes suggestions about how feminists might conceive of subjects as embodied and enmeshed in power relations yet also capable of self-transformation. The subject of normalization and its relationship to sex/gender is a major one in feminist theory; Heyes' book is unique in her masterful use of Foucault; its clarity, and its sophisticated mix of the theoretical and the anecdotal. It will appeal to feminist philosophers and theorists.
Author | : Jan Assmann |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004379088 |
This collection of papers from two workshops - held in Heidelberg, Germany, in July 1996 and Jerusalem, Israel, in October 1997 - is concerned with anthropological rather than theological aspects of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions, ranging from the 'primary' religions of the archaic period and their complex developments in Egypt and Mesopotamia to the 'soteriological' movements and 'secondary' religions that emerged in Late Antiquity. The first part of the book focuses on "Confession and Conversion", while the second part is devoted to the topic of "Guilt, Sin and Rituals of Purification". The primary purpose of this volume is to convey a sense of the dynamics and dialectical relationships between the various Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions from the archaic period to Late Antiquity.
Author | : Steve Andreas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Neurolinguistic programming |
ISBN | : 9780911226430 |
Learn a model for changing the beliefs that impact us the most -- those about our own identity. Everyone agrees it's good to have high self-esteem, but almost no one knows how to actually get it. Practices such as "just loving yourself more" don't usually work. This model shows how to discover the unconscious structure of identity, and how to align your identity with your values. The result is a resilient self-esteem that naturally leads to "becoming who you want to be." This is an advanced NLP book, most useful for those who have background in Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Author | : Hubert Buch-Hansen |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2024-05-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1526173271 |
As a research field, social movement and political project, degrowth is a multi-faceted phenomenon. It brings together a range of practices including alternative forms of living and initiatives of various kinds in civil society, business and the state. Yet no comprehensive theory of degrowth transformations has so far been developed. Deep transformations fills this gap. It develops a theory of degrowth transformations drawing on insights from multiple fields of knowledge, such as political economy, sociology and philosophy. The book offers a holistic perspective that brings into focus transformation processes on various scales and points to various mechanisms that can facilitate degrowth. These for instance include ecosocial policies, transformative initiatives in business and civil society, and alternative modes of being in and relating to the world.
Author | : Grant David McCracken |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 2008-05-12 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0253219574 |
The reinvention of identity in today's world.
Author | : Andy Schürr |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 3642341764 |
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applications of Graph Transformations, AGTIVE 2011, held in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2011. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks, 2 application reports and 3 tool demonstration papers were carefully selected from 36 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on invited talk abstracts, model-driven engineering, graph transformation applications, tool demonstrations, graph transformation exploration techniques, graph transformation semantics and reasoning, application reports and bidirectional transformations.
Author | : Davide Di Ruscio |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-07-05 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 3319087894 |
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Model Transformation, ICMT 2014, held in York, UK, in July 2014. The 14 revised papers were carefully selected from 38 submissions. The papers have been organized in topical sections on model transformation testing, foundations of model synchronization, applications of model synchronization and tracing and reverse engineering of transformations.
Author | : Greg Wurm |
Publisher | : Change the World Coaching |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014-04-18 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1611660696 |
A lot of people want the world to change. Some people want to change the world. Some of these people will try. But only few of them will actually succeed. This book examines the relationship between the individual and society in bringing about social transformations. The theory, as the title suggests, is that true social transformation can only occur through collective personal transformations. Understanding this is critical for anyone who wants to change the world. Those who don't, can try, but will never truly succeed.