Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh

by Karmen MacKendrick

Book Overview

Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. But just where, if at all, do words and bodies touch?

In a trio of paired chapters, each juxtaposing an illustrative story or case study to a theoretical exploration, MacKendrick examines three somatic figures of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823224074
• ISBN13: 9780823224074
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"