Skip to main content alibris logo
Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh - Mackendrick, Karmen
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

An exciting and innovative philosophy of desire. This deeply engaging work, which reads at moments like a poem, a prayer, or a love letter, performs dazzlingly what it also analyzes incisively--namely, the mutual touching, enfolding, and cutting-across of bodies, of words, and above all of bodies and words that meet (as they can only meet) at their limits.... MacKendrick's philosophy repeatedly touches upon theology, and her book should be read by theologians as well as philosophers and others interested in desire, language ...

loading
Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh 2004, Fordham University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780823224074

Trade paperback

Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh 2004, Fordham University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780823224067

Hardcover