{"product_id":"zone-4-fragments-for-a-history-of-the-human-body-part-2","title":"Zone 4: Fragments for a History of the Human Body  Part 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe forty-eight essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms in order to construct a body adapted to moral ideas or social circumstances  the body of a charismatic citizen or a visionary monk  a mirror image of the world or a reflection of the spirit.  Each volume emphasizes a particular perspective. Part 1 explores the human bodys relationship to the divine  to the bestial  and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. Part 2 covers the junctures between the bodys outside and inside by studying the manifestations  or production  of the soul and the expression of the emotions and  on another level  by examining the speculations inspired by cenesthesia  pain  and death. Part 3 brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how organs or bodily substances can be used to justify or challenge the way human societies function and  conversely  how political and social functions tend to make the bodies of the persons filling them the organs of a larger body  the social body or the universe as a whole.  Among the contributors to Fragments for a History of the Human Body are Mark Elvin  Catherine Gallagher  Franoise Hritier-Aug  Julia Kristeva  William R. LaFleur  Thomas W. Laqueur  Jacques Le Goff  Nicole Loraux  Mario Perniola  Hillel Schwartz  Jean Starobinski  Jean-Pierre Vernant  and Caroline Walker Bynum.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959910854709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0942299248","price":46.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780942299243.jpg?v=1770378673","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/zone-4-fragments-for-a-history-of-the-human-body-part-2","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}