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OverviewThis interdisciplinary study traces the radical changes that occurred in the understanding of the biological body and of human incarnation beginning in the first third of the seventeenth century. It is the first to examine the importance of that new corporeality in the determination of sensibility and passion in French culture of the seventeenth century. This study analyzes the development and deployment of the aesthetic body_that is, in its full etymological sense, a body whose principal function is the generation of affectivity_through an opening chapter on physiology to chapters on four major senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch). The study traces the intervention of the aesthetic body in representative cultural discourses: ethics, theatrical spectacle, rhetoric, artistic and moral judgment of 'taste,' and sociopolitical anthropology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Erec R. KochPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: University of Delaware Press Dimensions: Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.735kg ISBN: 9781611490800ISBN 10: 1611490804 Pages: 390 Publication Date: 01 July 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationErec R. Koch is professor of French at the University of Tennessee. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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