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Judovitz, Dalia was born on September 23, 1951 in Romania.
( What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, co...)
What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical entity to disembodied, mechanical and virtual analogs. The study ranges from Baroque, pre-Cartesian interpretations of body and embodiment, to the Cartesian elaboration of ontological difference and mind-body dualism, and it concludes with the parodic and violent aftermath of this legacy to the French Enlightenment. It engages work by philosophical authors such as Montaigne, Descartes and La Mettrie, as well as literary works by d'Urfé, Corneille and the Marquis de Sade. The examination of sexuality and the emergence of sexual difference as a dominant mode of embodiment are central to the book's overall design. The work is informed by philosophical accounts of the body (Nietzsche, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty), by feminist theory (Butler, Irigaray, Bordo), as well as by literary and cultural historians (Scarry, Stewart, Bynum, etc.) and historians of science (Canguilhem, Pagel, and Temkin), among others. It will appeal to scholars of literature, philosophy, French studies, critical theory, feminist theory, cultural historians and historians of science and technology. Dalia Judovitz is Professor of French, Emory University. She is also author of Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit and Subjectivity and Representation in Decartes: The Origins of Modernity.
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( Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and l...)
Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect—and greater controversy—than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of mechanical reproduction in order to redefine the meaning and value of the art object, the artist, and artistic production. Judovitz begins with Duchamp's supposed abandonment of painting and his subsequent return to material that mimics art without being readily classifiable as such. Her book questions his paradoxical renunciation of pictorial and artistic conventions while continuing to evoke and speculatively draw upon them. She offers insightful analyses of his major works including The Large Glass, Fountain and Given 1) the waterfall, 2) the illuminating gas. Duchamp, a poser and solver of problems, occupied himself with issues of genre, gender, and representation. His puns, double entendres, and word games become poetic machines, all part of his intellectual quest for the very limits of nature, culture, and perception. Judovitz demonstrates how Duchamp's redefinition of artistic modes of production through reproduction opens up modernism to more speculative explorations, while clearing the ground for the aesthetic of appropriation central to postmodernism.
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(This book re-examines the philosophical and personal writ...)
This book re-examines the philosophical and personal writings of Descartes from a modernist standpoint, combining philosophical, literary and historical styles of analysis. It reveals the rhetorical and literary artifices used to express philosophical arguments.
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(Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and lin...)
Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. This book examines how he interpreted notions of mechanical reproduction in order to redefine the meaning and value of the art object, the artist, and artistic production.
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Judovitz, Dalia was born on September 23, 1951 in Romania.
Bachelor, Brandeis U, 1973. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins U, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins U, 1979.
Assistant professor U Pennsylvania, 1979—1982, University California, Berkeley, 1982—1988. Associate professor Emory University, Atlanta, 1988—1994, professor, 1994—2002, National Endowment of the Humanities professor French literature and Italian, since 2002. Visiting fellow Institute Humanities University Michigan, 1994.
( What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, co...)
(This book re-examines the philosophical and personal writ...)
(Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and lin...)
( Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and l...)
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Member of Modern Language Association, N. American Association 17th Century French Literature, International Association for Philosophical and Literature.