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On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:56:52 -0700 (PDT) Alexa Tatyana Schriempf <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I'd also consider Merleau-Ponty as a way of looking at the body. > > > > > The only work that might be useful that I find was the hermeutical > > work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and his ideas of "Situatedness" and > > "Horizon" in Truth and Method, a book that was originally meant for > > aesthetics but has find its way into social sciences and philosophy. > > Michael - it's exciting to see someone else thinking abot situation -- > Simone de beauvoir does as well, esp. in her Second Sex -- and the concept > of embodiment as well as it defines in part our situation.'course, I'm > told by my professor that we have to be careful not to extend Beauvoir > further than what she actually says (ie. embodiment as concepts are more > fully handled by the suceedding frecnh feminist - irigaray, etc) - but > there is currently in the american academy a move to merge feminism and > phenomonology in a way to not only overcome the body/culture dichottomy > and see it in a different light, but also be able to deal with the > constantly increasing number of axis (plural spelling???) that are used to > analize social location --- but yes, I think Gadamer is very useful here. > > So, Allison - what have you found? > > lex > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%