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Revealing Bodies: Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850) by Erin M. Goss is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Revealing Bodies Turns To The Eighteenth Century To Ask A Question With Continuing Relevance: What Kinds Of Knowledge Condition Our Understanding Of Our Own Bodies? Focusing On The Tension Between Particularity And Generality That Inheres In Intellectual Discourse About The Body, Revealing Bodies Explores The Disconnection Between The Body Understood As A General Form Available To Knowledge And The Body Experienced As Particularly One's Own. Erin Goss Locates This Division In Contemporary Bodily Exhibits, Such As Gunther Von Hagens' Body Worlds, And In Eighteenth-century Anatomical Discourse. Her Readings Of The Corporeal Aesthetics Of Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, William Blake's Cosmological Depiction Of The Body's Origin In Such Works As The [first] Book Of Urizen, And Mary Tighe's Reflection On The Relation Between Love And The Soul In Psyche; Or, The Legend Of Love Demonstrate That The Idea Of The Body That Grounds Knowledge In An Understanding Of Anatomy Emerges Not As Fact But As Fiction. Ultimately, Revealing Bodies Describes How Thinkers In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries And Bodily Exhibitions In The Twentieth And Twenty-first Call Upon Allegorized Figurat

Who reads Revealing Bodies: Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Erin M. Goss
Publisher
Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781611483956
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Philosophy, Science

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