"Finally, those of us who teach courses on continental theories of the body will be able to say goodbye to homemade readers! This beautifully organized and indispensable anthology puts it all together for us: well-chosen selections from the foundational twentieth-century texts and clarifying contemporary commentary. An invaluable contribution for teachers, students, and scholars." Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky

This new reader provides an unparalleled collection of foundational twentieth century texts on the concept of the body.

Acknowledgments.ntroduction: Foundations of a Theory of Body.

Part I: Phenomenological Formulations:dmund Husserl:1. Material Things in Their Relation to the Aesthetic Body: Edmund Husserl.The Constitution of Psychic Reality Through the Body: Edmund Husserl.Soft, Smooth Hands: Husserl's Phenomenology of the Lived-Body: Donn Welton.The Zero-Point of Orientation: The Placement of the I in Perceived Space: Elmar Holenstein. Partin Heidegger:5. Introduction to Being and Time: Martin Heidegger.Equipment, Action, and the World: Martin Heidegger.Dasein as Affective Responsiveness and as Understanding: Martin Heidegger.Seeing and Sight: Martin Heidegger.Hearing, Discourse and the Call of Care: Martin Heidegger.0. Hands: Martin Heidegger.1. On Hearing the Logos: Martin Heidegger.2. The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment: Heidegger's Thinking of Being: David Michael Levin.aurice Merleau-Ponty:13. Situating the Body: Maurice Merleau-Ponty.4. The Lived Body: Maurice Merleau-Ponty.5. The Body in its Sexual Being: Maurice Merleau-Ponty.6. The Natural World and the Body: Maurice Merleau-Ponty.7. Saturated Intentionality: Anthony J. Steinbock.8. Flesh and Blood: A Proposed Supplement to Merleau-Ponty: Drew Leder.

Part II: Psycho- and Sociotropic Genealogical Analyses:acques Lacan:19. Towards a Genetic Theory of the Ego: Jacques Lacan.0. The See-saw of Desire: Jacques Lacan.1. The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Body: Jacques Lacan.2. Anamorphosis: Jacques Lacan.3. The Status and Significance of the Body in Lacan's Imaginary and Symbolic Orders: Charles W. Bonner.ichel Foucault:24. Discipline and Punish: Michel Foucault.5. The History of Sexuality: Michel Foucault.6. The Subjectification of the Body: Alphonso Lingis.7. Foucault and the Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions: Judith Butler.

Part III: Towards a Semiotics of the Gendered Body:ulia Kristeva:28. Subject and Body: Julia Kristeva.9. On the Meaning of Drives: Julia Kristeva.0. The Flesh Become Word: The Body in Kristeva's Theory: Kelly Oliver.uce Irigaray:31. Female Desire: Luce Irigary.2. Beyond Sex and Gender: On Luce Irigaray's This Sex Which is Not One: Tina Chanter.