From the Limbs of the Heart to the Soul’s Organs

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Why Carnal Hermeneutics?
6. The Wager of Carnal Hermeneutics 15
7. Mind the Gap 57
8. Rethinking the Flesh
9. Rethinking Corpus 77
10. From the Limbs of the Heart to the Soul’s Organs 92
11. A Tragedy and a Dream 115
12. Incarnation and the Problem of Touch 128
13. On the Phenomena of Suffering 145
14. Memory, History, Oblivion 148
15. Matters of Touch
16. Skin Deep 159
17. Touched by Touching 173
18. Umbilicus 182
19. Getting in Touch 195
20. Between Vision and Touch 214
21. Biodiversity and the Diacritics of Life 235
22. Divine Bodies
23. The Passion According to Teresa of Avila 251
24. Refiguring Wounds in the Afterlife (of Trauma) 263
25. This Is My Body 279
26. Original Breath 295
27. On the Flesh of the Word 306
28. Notes 317
29. Contributors 381
30. Index 385