Pensar el cuerpo

What multicultural traditions does our body inherit? What aspects link the individual body and the social body, the human body and the body of law, the sexual body and the body of crime? How to understand health, disease, death, the rituals of sexuality, the treatment of the corpse, without analyzing the current and invisible concepts of corporality? Pensar el cuerpo. Historia, materialidad y símbolo constitutes a transdisciplinary and multifaceted incursion in the density of Western thought on the corporal. The book includes aesthetic, political, philosophical, social and scientific aspects that contribute to promoting the image of the body —and of the post-human— as a constellation of senses, as a spectacle and as a platform for the implementation of control and strategies of enjoyment, preservation and punishment, aggression and communitarian solidarity.