The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism (Series)

The body constructed by theory and through social and cultural practices has provided the departure point for studies that broach new fields and styles of inquiry. The aim of the series The Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism was to reconstruct a history of materialisms (aesthetic, linguistic, and philosophical) by locating the body at the intersection of speculative and cultural formations across a wide range of contexts. The series is no longer accepting submissions.

Founding Editors
Dalia Judovitz
James I. Porter

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The Culture of the Body

Genealogies of Modernity

By Dalia Judovitz
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments

The Limits of Heroism

Homer and the Ethics of Reading

By Mark Buchan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the relationship of desire to heroic ideology in both the Iliad and the Odyssey

Philodemus in Italy

The Books from Herculaneum

By Marcello Gigante
Translated by Dirk Obbink
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Power and Knowledge

Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire

By Tamsyn Barton
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Offers insight into the relationship between knowledge and power in ancient times--and science and politics in our own

Stately Bodies

Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender

By Adriana Cavarero
Translated by Robert de Lucca & Deanna Shemek
Subjects: Gender Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself

Constructions of the Classical Body

Edited by James I. Porter
Subjects: Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity

Staging Masculinity

The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World

By Erik Gunderson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"

Cutting the Body

Representing Woman in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis

By Eliane DalMolin
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Theater and Performance, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the notion of the cut in poetry, film, and psychoanalysis and how it might be linked to male creativity

The Pedagogical Contract

The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World

By Yun Lee Too
Subjects: Classical Studies, Education, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Rethinks the teacher-student relationship from its ancient roots to the present

An Utterly Dark Spot

Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy

By Miran Bozovic
Foreword by Slavoj Zizek
Subjects: Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Two concepts of special interest to contemporary theorists--the gaze and the body--approached in a fresh and fascinating way

The Body and Physical Difference

Discourses of Disability

Edited by David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality

The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World

By Slavoj Zizek & F.W.J. von Schelling
Translated by Judith Norman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Philosophy, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft

The Subject as Action

Transformation and Totality in Narrative Aesthetics

By Alan Singer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Philosophy
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Demonstrates the relation of narrative art to literary and philosophical speculations about human subjectivity

The Tremulous Private Body

Essays on Subjection

By Francis Barker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Essay and Interview
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

An ambitious study of literary, aesthetic, and philosophical authors on the modern subject versus the modern body

Simulacra and Simulation

By Jean Baudrillard
Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Art, Architecture
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
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