Body politics

Author: Ge Hongbing Song Geng
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features:
Chapter 1: The Original Stance of Chinese Thought – The Body in Chinese Thought: Founded on the Theory of the Precious Body
Is the Theory of the Precious Body a Fundamental Belief in Chinese Thought?
The Core Meaning and Modern Value of "Body" as the Original Thought of Chinese Language
The Body: An Overlooked Proposition
Chapter 2: The Body in Politics: Ancient Greece and the Modern Western World
Realist and Idealist Views of the Body: Emergence, Dissolution, and Motivation
Mind-Body Dualism: The Rise of a Mainstream Body Concept
On Generation: A Method for Explaining the Body and the World
Nietzsche’s Transcendence
Foucault: The "Modernity" of the Body
Chapter 3: The Concept of the Body in the May Fourth New Culture Revolution
The Body as a Modern Political Field
Hair: A Political Marker of the Xinhai Revolution
Body Liberation: "Human Nature Theory" as a Body-Political Concept
A Sick China: Body Metaphors in Cultural Diagnosis
Chapter 4: The Body of Class – Body Ideology in the Era of Revolution
Clothing in Revolutionary Narratives
The Body of Intellectuals
The Physique of Laborers
Chapter 5: Body Writing – Post-Enlightenment and Revolutionary Narratives: The Postmodern Condition of the Body
De-Desire and Its Signification
The Capitalized Body: What It Expresses and How It Expresses It
"The Lower Body"
Chapter 6: The Cultural Politics of Hunger
Hunger, Hunger Sensation, Eternal Hunger
Hunger Sensation and Political Revolution: From "Anti-Hunger" to "Anti-Oppression"
The Completion of Hunger Politics: The Joy of Uprooting
Hunger Politics: The Control of Hunger
Chapter 7: Sex Politics
Sexual Logic in Male Writings
Exploitation and Servitude
Receptive Politics
Marriage: An Anthropological Map of Sex Politics
Chapter 8: The Body in Sickness
Medical Autocracy and the Metaphor of Sin
The Body in Pain
The Metaphor of Death
Chapter 9: The Body’s Being-in-the-World – On Poverty, Regret, Intoxication, and Solitude
Poverty
Regret
Intoxication
Solitude
Chapter 10: Body Ethics – Is Ethics Possible Based on the Body?
Future Ethics
The Ethical Significance of the Body
Body Ethics: A Belief
Postscript