Word Made Skin by Karmen Mackendrick
Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. This title examines three somatic figures of speech: the touch, the fold, and the cut.
MacKendrick's "Word Made Skin"offers an exciting and innovative philosophy of desireThis deeply engaging work, which reads at moments like a poem, a prayer, or a love letter, performs dazzlingly what it also analyzes incisively--namely, the mutual touching, enfolding, and cutting-across of bodies, of words, and above all of bodies /and/ words that meet (as they can only meet) at their limits. Richly intertextual philosophical chapters exploring figures of "touch," "fold," and "cut" are provocatively interleaved with chapters on the risen Christ of John's Gospel, the light-enfolded Marian figure of T.S. Eliot's poem "Ash Wednesday," and tattooed images of the "sacred" and "immaculate" hearts of Christ and Mary. MacKendrick's philosophy repeatedly touches upon theology, and her book should be read by theologians as well as philosophers and others interested in desire, language, embodiment, and the relation between them. -- -Virginia Burrus Drew Theological Seminary "Karmen MacKendrick is one of the most original and most important philosophers and theologians now writing in the English language. *Word Made Skin* brings her thinking to full maturity. It is beautiful and disturbing, complex and clear: a profound exploration of the surface." -- -Crispin Sartwell Maryland Institute College of Art
Karmen MacKendrick is a professor of philosophy and an associate chair of the McDevitt Center for Creativity and Innovation at Le Moyne College. Her work in philosophical theology is entangled with several other disciplines, particularly those involved with words, with flesh, or with the pleasures to be taken in both. These preoccupations appear in several books, most recently Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions (Fordham University Press, 2013).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823224074 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823224074 |
| Title | Word Made Skin |
| Author | Karmen Mackendrick |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2004-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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