Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life

Studies in intercultural and historical contexts

Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta, Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9783110407310
• eBook ISBN: 9783110407471
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Endnotes

Body Factories
1	Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil, 6, 303.
2	See Pierre Chantraine, Dictionnaire étimologique de la langue grecque, vol. I, 1083–1084; Alfred Ernout, Alfred Meillet, Dictionaire étimologique de la langue latine, 144–146; Émile Benveniste, Le vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes. I warmly thank Lorenzo Rustighi, Girolamo De Michele, Sandro Mezzadra.
3	It is enough the reference to Aristotle, Politics, 1253a, 1281b.
4	See Adriana CAVARERO, “Il corpo politico come organismo”.
5	Aristotle, On the Soul, 402 a7.
6	See Edmund Plowden, Commentaries or Reports, 21–23.
7	Cf. Ernst Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies.
8	See Otto von Gierke, Johannes Althusius; Werner Näf, “Die Frühformen des modernen Staates im Spätmittelalter"; Hasso Hofmann, Repräsentation.
9	See Giuseppe Duso, La rappresentanza politica.
10	Heinrich VON TREITSCHKE, “Frankreichs Staatsleben und der Bonapartismus”, 226.
11	Cf. Pierre Rosanvallon, Le sacré du citoyen.
12	See Louis Chevalier, Classes laborieuses et classes dangereuses; as for the metaphorical field of the ‘barbarian’ or the ‘savage’ see: Pierre Michel, Les barbares, 1789–1848.
13	Karl Marx, Das Kapital, I, 2, Ware und Geld.
14	See Luca Basso, Agire in comune, 47; Sandro Mezzadra, Nei cantieri marxiani.
15	Karl Marx, Das Kapital, I, 4, Verwandlung von Geld in Kapital.
16	Ibid., 183.
17	Friedrich Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 565, 568; cf. Rehberg’s contribution in this volume.
18	See Paolo Virno, Grammatica della moltitudine, 82; Michel Vadée, Marxpenseur du possible.
19	Karl Marx, Das Kapital, I, 2, 181.
20	See Paolo Virno, Grammatica della moltitudine, 83.
21	See for example Paolo Virno, Grammatica della moltitudine, 84; Maurizio Lazzarato, “Biopolitique / Bioéconomie"; Carlo Vercellone, ed., Capitalismo cognitivo; Andrea Fumagalli, Bioeconomia e capitalismo cognitivo; Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth.
22	Karl Marx, Das Kapital, I, 2, 189.
23	Ibid., 191.
24	Karl Marx, Das Kapital, I, 5, 209.
25	Cf. Achille MBEMBE, “Necropolitics”.
26	Karl Marx, Das Kapital, I, 13, 404. Cf., generally, Ahlrich Meyer, “Mechanische und organische Metaphorik politischer Philosophie”.
27	See Sandro Chignola, Fragile cristallo. More in general: Werner Conze, “Vom ‘Pöbel’ zum ‘Proletariat’”; Eckart Pankoke, Die Arbeitsfrage.
28	See for example François Ewald, L’État providence; Giovanna Procacci, Gouverner la misère.
29	Karl Marx, Das Kapital, I, 5, 200.
30	Karl Marx, Das Kapital, I, 11, 352.
31	Ibid., 349.
32	Edward P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, 9: “the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. Like any other relationship, it is a fluency which evades analysis if we attem...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta
• Basic Perspectives
• Sandro Chignola
• Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
• Ariel Wilkis
• Walter Cenci
• Alexandre Roig
• Francisco-Hugo Freda
• Premodern Aspects
• Gert Melville
• Jean-Claude Schmitt
• Cultural Identities
• Karin Preisendanz
• Achim Mittag
• Hua Cai
• Gender, Sexuality, and Violence
• Vanesa Vazquez Laba and Cecilia Rugna
• Paula Sibilia
• Karina Bidaseca
• José Antonio Garriga Zucal
• Endnotes
• About the Authors