Deleuze and the Physically Active Body

2019-05-22 Political Science

Author : Pirkko Markula
Release : 2019-05-22
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Deleuze and the Physically Active Body by : Pirkko Markula

Download or read book Deleuze and the Physically Active Body written by Pirkko Markula. This book was released on 2019-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy as it relates to the study of the physically active body. It explores theoretical and practical examples of how the physically active body can be examined as a material, social, political, and cultural entity using a Deleuzian perspective. Examining topics such as, the formation of thought within a capitalist system; sport, exercise, and dance as cultural arrangements; researching the physically active body from a Deleuzian perspective; and Deleuze on Foucault, this book shows ways of investigating the moving body as an agent for initiating social change. This is fascinating reading for students and researchers working in the fields of the Sociology of Sport, Sport and Politics, and Sport and Social Theory.

Deleuze and the Body

2011-03-22 Philosophy

Author : Laura Guillaume
Release : 2011-03-22
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 977/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Deleuze and the Body by : Laura Guillaume

Download or read book Deleuze and the Body written by Laura Guillaume. This book was released on 2011-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the bodyUsing a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a truly multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement and literature.The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins and becoming in relation to power, creativity and affect.

The Bible After Deleuze

2022-12-07

Author : Stephen D. Moore
Release : 2022-12-07
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The Bible After Deleuze by : Stephen D. Moore

Download or read book The Bible After Deleuze written by Stephen D. Moore. This book was released on 2022-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of Gilles Deleuze on critical thought in the opening decades of the twenty-first century rivals that of Jacques Derrida or Michel Foucault on critical thought in the closing decades of the twentieth. The Deleuze and... industry is in overdrive in the humanities, the social sciences, and beyond, busily connecting Deleuzian philosophy to everything from literature to architecture, metaphysics to mathematics, ethics to physics, sexuality to technology, and ecology to theology. What of Deleuze and the Bible? What does the Bible become when it is plugged into the Deleuzian corpus? An immense affective assemblage, among other things. And what does biblical criticism become in the process? A practice of close reading that is other than interpretation and renounces the concept of representation. Not just for those already familiar with the work of Deleuze, the book begins with an extended introduction to Deleuzian thought. It then proceeds to unexegetical explorations of five successive themes: Text (how to make yourself a Bible without Organs, and why); Body (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway); Sex (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses); Race (Jesus and the white faciality machine); and Politics (democracy, despots, pandemics, ancient prophets). Cumulatively, these explorations limn the fluid contours of a Bible after Deleuze.

Learning Movements

2020-12-30 Education

Author : Hakan Larsson
Release : 2020-12-30
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 766/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Learning Movements by : Hakan Larsson

Download or read book Learning Movements written by Hakan Larsson. This book was released on 2020-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary ways of understanding human movements, specifically movement learning, are heavily dominated by individualistic, dualistic and mechanistic perspectives. These perspectives are individualistic in the sense that in research as well as in educational practice movements/movers are typically decontextualized, they are dualistic in the sense that the body is taken to be ‘inhabited’, even ‘governed,’ by a rational mind which is not itself a part of that body; and they are mechanistic in the sense that movements and movement learning can be ‘calculated’. This approach has supported the dominance of a westernised and predominantly white, masculinised and heteronormative view of able bodies, embodiment and movements. Hence, it has contributed to marginalise not only other approaches and perspectives and individuals. New research has evolved, including new approaches and these held perspectives have been challenged by social and culturally sensitive, holistic as well as pluralistic, and dynamic/organic perspectives of human movements and moving humans. Examples of such research can be found in disciplines such as; physical education and pedagogy, ethnography, philosophy, and sociology. Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education provides the societal and epistemological background for these new approaches and will be essential in disseminating this knowledge to movement educators, academics and researchers as well as professionals within education, sports, health and fitness, dance, outdoor activities, etc., and that it will spearhead new and inclusive practices within these settings.

Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport

2015-07-24 Social Science

Author : Richard Giulianotti
Release : 2015-07-24
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 624/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport by : Richard Giulianotti

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport written by Richard Giulianotti. This book was released on 2015-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sociology of sport is a core discipline within the academic study of sport. It helps us to understand what sport is and why it matters. Sociological knowledge, implicit or explicit, therefore underpins scholarly enquiry into sport in every aspect. The Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport is a landmark publication that brings together the most important themes, theories and issues within the sociology of sport, tracing the contours of the discipline and surveying the state-of-the-art. Part One explores the main theories and analytical approaches that define contemporary sport sociology and introduces the most important methodological issues confronting researchers working in the social scientific study of sport. Part Two examines the connections and divisions between sociology and cognate disciplines within sport studies, including history, anthropology, economics, leisure and tourism studies, philosophy, politics and psychology. Part Three investigates how the most important social divisions within sport, and in wider society, are addressed in sport sociology, including ‘race‘, gender, class, sexuality and disability. Part Four explores a wide range of pressing contemporary issues associated with sport, including sport and the body, social problems associated with sport, sport places and settings, and the global aspects of sport. Written by a team of leading international sport scholars, including many of the most well-known, respected and innovative thinkers working in the discipline, the Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport is an essential reference for any student, researcher or professional with an interest in sport.

Popular eBooks

Deleuze and the Physically Active Body

Deleuze and the Body

The Bible After Deleuze

Learning Movements

You may also like...