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Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World
Claudia Benthien
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Description for Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World
Paperback. Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of literature, art, philosophy, and anatomical drawings and writings. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 256 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430. On the Cultural Border Between Self and World. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. 256 pages, ill. Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of literature, art, philosophy, and anatomical drawings and writings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight: 430. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas.
Only skin deep, getting under one's skin, the naked truth : metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations-tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more-proliferate in Western culture. Yet outside dermatology textbooks, the topic of skin has been largely ignored. This important cultural study shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century to the present. Claudia Benthien argues that despite medicine's having penetrated the bodily surface and exposed the interior of the body as never before, skin, paradoxically, has become a more and more unyielding symbol. ... Read more
Only skin deep, getting under one's skin, the naked truth : metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations-tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more-proliferate in Western culture. Yet outside dermatology textbooks, the topic of skin has been largely ignored. This important cultural study shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century to the present. Claudia Benthien argues that despite medicine's having penetrated the bodily surface and exposed the interior of the body as never before, skin, paradoxically, has become a more and more unyielding symbol. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Condition
New
Weight
432g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231125031
SKU
V9780231125031
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About Claudia Benthien
Claudia Benthien is assistant professor of German at Humboldt-University, Berlin. She received the Tiburtius Prize from the Berlin senate for this work.
Reviews for Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World
A prize-winning examination of the changing cultural and metaphorical significance of skin, through innovative readings of literature, art, philosophy, history, anthropology, medicine, and more. Library Journal [Benthien] deftly illuminates her findings, and she is quite brilliant. This is historical anthropology at its best.
Joanna Briscoe The Guardian Delves into the cultural role of skin as the place where personal ... Read more
Joanna Briscoe The Guardian Delves into the cultural role of skin as the place where personal ... Read more