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Phenomenology of the Broken Body (Routledge Research in Phenomenology)

Phenomenology of the Broken Body (Routledge Research in Phenomenology)

by Cassandra Falke (Editor), Cassandra Falke (Editor), Thor Eirik Eriksen (Editor), Espen Dahl (Editor)

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Synopsis

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point of view, various breakdowns are worth analyzing for their own sake, and discussing them also opens up overlooked dimensions of our bodily constitution. This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived body-its normality and abnormality, health and sickness, its activity as well as its passivity. The contributors integrate phenomenological insights with discussions about bodily brokenness in philosophy, theology, medical science and literary theory. Phenomenology of the Broken Body demonstrates how the broken body sheds fresh light on the nuances of embodied experience in ordinary life and ultimately questions phenomenology's preunderstanding of the body.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 29 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 1138616001
ISBN 13: 9781138616004

Author Bio
Espen Dahl is Professor of Systematic Theology at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. His research interests mainly focus on the intersection between twentieth-century philosophy (phenomenology and ordinary language philosophy) and theology. His publications include Stanley Cavell, Religion, and Continental Philosophy (2014); In Between. The Holy Beyond Modern Dichotomies (2011); The Holy and Phenomenology. Religious Experience after Husserl (SCM Press 2010). Dahl has published numerous articles on theology and philosophy, such as Job and the Problem of Physical Pain - a Phenomenological Reading, Modern Theology 2016, 32 (1); and Humility and Generosity: On the Horizontality of the Divine Givenness, Neue Zeitschrift fur systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 55 (nr 3) (2013). Cassandra Falke is a Professor of English Literature at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. Her books include Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory (ed. 2010), Literature by the Working Class: English Autobiography, 1820-1848 (2013), and most recently The Phenomenology of Love and Reading (2016). She has also authored articles about Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, liberal arts education, contemporary phenomenology and the portrayal of violence in literature. Thor Eirik Eriksen has a PhD in Philosophy and holds a position as senior adviser at The University Hospital of North Norway and Assistant Professor of Community Medicine, at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. His main research interests are philosophy of science, existential philosophy, phenomenology and the borderland between philosophy and medicine. He has been a contributing author on such articles as: At the Borders of Medical Reasoning: Aetiological and Ontological Challenges of Medically Unexplained Symptoms in Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine (in press), The Medically Unexplained Revisited in Medicine Healthcare and Philosophy (2012), Patients' 'Thingification', Unexplained Symptoms and Response-ability in the Clinical Context (2016).