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Rent Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology (New Metaphysics)
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Open Humanities Press
Published: Mar 2015
Genre: Philosophy - Aesthetics
Pages: 292
Synopsis
Alongside readings of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, Plastic Bodies digs into an array of ancient, modern, and contemporary texts in search of the resources needed to rebuild the concept of sensation. It assembles a speculative aesthetics that is both a realist theory of sensation and a philosophy of embodiment that breaks the form of the "lived" body.