K. Morris 
Sartre on the Body 

Sartre scholars and others engage with Jean-Paul Sartre’s descriptions of the human body, bringing him into dialogue with feminists, sociologists, psychologists and historians and asking: What is pain? Do men and women experience their bodies differently? How do society and culture shape our bodies? Can we re-shape them?

Table of Content

Preface and Acknowledgements Series Editor’s Preface Permissions Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Sartre on the Body; K.J.Morris PART I: CONTEXT AND CLARIFICATION The Body and the Book: Reading Being and Nothingness ; J.S.Catalano Husserl, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on Embodiment, Touch, and the ‘Double Sensation’; D.Moran Sartre and the Lived Body: Negation, Non-Positional Self-Awareness, and Hodological Space; A.Mirvish Sartre and Marcel on Embodiment: Reevaluating Traditional and Gynocentric Feminisms; C.Mui PART II: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT Representing Bodies; Q.Cassam Resisting Sartrean Pain: Henry, Sartre and Biranism; M.G.Peckitt Sartre and Death: Forgetting the Mortal Body in Being and Nothingness ; C.Howells Sexual Paradigms; R.C.Solomon Some Patterns of Identification and Otherness; P.S.Morris PART III: CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION The Phenomenology of Clumsiness; K.J.Morris Sartre and Fanon on Embodied Bad Faith; L.R.Gordon Sartre in the Company of Merleau-Ponty, Foucault and Duden; M.Langer The Body and Society: Sartre and the Sociologists; N.Crossley The Socially Shaped Body and the Critique of Corporeal Experience; E.A.Behnke Bibliography Index

About the author

ELIZABETH A. BEHNKE is the Coordinator and Senior Research Fellow of the Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body, USA NICK CROSSLEY is a professor and current head of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK LEWIS R. GORDON is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Jewish Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA CHRISTINA HOWELLS is Professor of French at the University of Oxford (UK) and a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, UK MONIKA LANGER is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada ADRIAN MIRVISH is a professor of philosophy at California State University, Chico, USA DERMOT MORAN holds the Chair of Philosophy (Metaphysics and Logic) at University College Dublin, Ireland MICHAEL GILLAN PECKITT has just completed his Ph D at the Department of Humanities at the University of Hull, UK