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Contemporary Western Theory Of Body Culture Outlined

Posted on:2009-12-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X J DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245485955Subject:Literature and art
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Body culture is an important theoretical research concern clues,Incontemporary Western society, theory of body cultural numerous and complex, and the starting point and the theory is the foundation of the body. The theory of body culture is not only the physical body, instincts, but as a reality of the existence of various words were encoded and the formation of a unique culture. The body from traditional to contemporary culture is the body of the process. In tradition, the body always hidden in the soul, God, the shadow of a rational, and in Schopenhauer, Dilthey, Marx began to change that. Marx believed that the liberation of humanity is the full liberation, which also include the liberation of the body, but in this body who is a prerequisite for full liberation. Real change in the view of Nietzsche's theory, to the body as the yardstick, all starting from the body, the horrified rational discourse in the body exposed in the shadow of a brilliant long-hidden. And the spirit of Freud from the perspective that the body is a force of more than eager to meet and is an inherent desire to balance and release. body theory based on three major theoretical and cultural heritage, First Mello - Pontiac perception of body culture with the development of the theory. Second, Bourdieu as the representative body of anthropological perspective of cultural theory. Third is Deleuze and Michel Foucault as the representative of the new Nietzsche, and the further development of body culture Nietzsche's theory. To Eagleton and Featherstone as the representative of the other body cultural theorist, in their respective areas and theoretical insights in the leading position. body culture in development theory has its own characteristics, it is the rise of profound social and cultural reasons, but also the meaning and prosperity in the corresponding consequences.
Keywords/Search Tags:Body, Body culture, Theory of Body Cultural
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