| #2867324 in Books | 2002-11-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x5.25l,.70 | File type: PDF | 232 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Not my favorite book by Cavarero...|By MRA|I find the idea behind this book fascinating: the paradox involved in the contrast between the extended use of the body as a metaphor for the political realm in the West, and the way this very same political conceptions have completely expelled the body -associated to the feminine, the apolitical, the irrational- from its boundaries. A
Stately Bodies explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book builds on work from Adriana Cavarero's well-received study, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy. In that work Cavarero--as political theorist, philosopher, classicist, and close reader--examines literary and philosophical texts from Greek antiquity to modern to reveal the pa...
You easily download any file type for your device.Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) | Adriana Cavarero. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
