Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life : Studies in intercultural and historical contexts (Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology)

The body is at the same time a place where we express duration and/or discontinuity in history, a witness of radical social changes, and a factor of stabilization, but also of the transformation of human life - and therefore an eminent challenge for every human being. This book will contribute in a decisively interdisciplinary and cross-cultural way to a better understanding of the place, role, and connection of the body within social, political, and cultural shifts.

Gert Melville, TU Dresden, and Carlos Ruta, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.