The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
1. 
Homer and the Ethics of Reading
Explores the relationship of desire to heroic ideology in both the Iliad and the Odyssey
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| Hardcover | 2005 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Limits of Heroism" to Cart |
2. 
The Books from Herculaneum
A lively and concise survey of current scholarship on difficult but fascinating texts by this Epicurean poet and philosopher
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| Paper | 2002 | $28.95 | Out of Stock | Add Paper for "Philodemus in Italy" to Cart |
3. 
Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire
Offers insight into the relationship between knowledge and power in ancient times--and science and politics in our own
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2002 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Power and Knowledge" to Cart |
4. 
Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender
Explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself
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| Paper | 2002 | $30.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Stately Bodies" to Cart |
5. 
Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity
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| Paper | 2002 | $36.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Constructions of the Classical Body" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $94.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Constructions of the Classical Body" to Cart |
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Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2002 | $36.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Constructions of the Classical Body" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $94.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Constructions of the Classical Body" to Cart |
6. 
Genealogies of Modernity
A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Culture of the Body" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2011 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Culture of the Body" |
6.
Genealogies of Modernity
A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Culture of the Body" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2011 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Culture of the Body" |
7. 
The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World
Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Staging Masculinity" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Staging Masculinity" |
7.
The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World
Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Staging Masculinity" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Staging Masculinity" |
8. 
Representing Woman in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis
Explores the notion of the cut in poetry, film, and psychoanalysis and how it might be linked to male creativity
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Cutting the Body" to Cart |
9. 
The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World
Rethinks the teacher-student relationship from its ancient roots to the present
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Pedagogical Contract" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Pedagogical Contract" |
9.
The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World
Rethinks the teacher-student relationship from its ancient roots to the present
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Pedagogical Contract" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Pedagogical Contract" |
10. 
Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy
Two concepts of special interest to contemporary theorists--the gaze and the body--approached in a fresh and fascinating way
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "An Utterly Dark Spot" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "An Utterly Dark Spot" |
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Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy
Two concepts of special interest to contemporary theorists--the gaze and the body--approached in a fresh and fascinating way
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "An Utterly Dark Spot" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "An Utterly Dark Spot" |
11. 
Discourses of Disability
Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1997 | $36.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Body and Physical Difference" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1997 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Body and Physical Difference" to Cart |
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Discourses of Disability
Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1997 | $36.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Body and Physical Difference" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1997 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Body and Physical Difference" to Cart |
12. 
An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft
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| Paper | 1997 | $23.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World" to Cart |
13. 
Transformation and Totality in Narrative Aesthetics
Demonstrates the relation of narrative art to literary and philosophical speculations about human subjectivity
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| Paper | 1996 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Subject as Action" to Cart |
14. 
Essays on Subjection
An ambitious study of literary, aesthetic, and philosophical authors on the modern subject versus the modern body
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| Paper | 1995 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Tremulous Private Body" to Cart |
15. 
The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
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| Paper | 1995 | $17.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Simulacra and Simulation" to Cart |
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