{"product_id":"9780253109118","title":"Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around\u003cbr\u003e them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if we lived across and through our skins as much as we\u003cbr\u003e do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction\u003cbr\u003e with their social, political, cultural, and physical surroundings is not new. Early\u003cbr\u003e in the 20th century, John Dewey elaborated human existence as a set of patterns of\u003cbr\u003e behavior or actions shaped by the environment. Underscoring the continued relevance\u003cbr\u003e of his thought, Sullivan brings Dewey into conversation with Continental\u003cbr\u003e philosophers -- Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty -- and feminist philosophers -- Butler\u003cbr\u003e and Harding -- to expand thinking about the body. Emphasizing topics such as the\u003cbr\u003e role of habit, the discursivity of bodies, communication and meaning, personal and\u003cbr\u003e cultural structures of gender, the improvement of bodily experience, and\u003cbr\u003e understandings of truth and objectivity, Living Across and Through Skins\u003cbr\u003e acknowledges the importance of the body's experience without placing it in\u003cbr\u003e opposition to psychological, cultural, and social aspects of human life. By focusing\u003cbr\u003e on what bodies do, rather than what they are, Sullivan prompts a closer look at\u003cbr\u003e concrete, physical transactions that might be changed to improve human experiences\u003cbr\u003e of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112419901680,"sku":"9780253109118","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253109118_p0.jpg?v=1763681025","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253109118","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}