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<i>Refiguring the Ordinary</i> (review)

Refiguring the Ordinary (review) Gail Weiss Refiguring the Ordinary Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-21989-3 Ann V. Murphy In R efigu R i ng the OR di na Ry , Gail Weiss advances a trajector y of thought begun in Body Images (Routledge 1999), where she stressed the social, ethical, and political dimensions of embodiment. In this earlier work, Weiss brought resources from feminist theory to bear on Merleau-Ponty and Schilder’s account of the body image, or corporeal schema, a figure that illuminates the way in which the contours of the body are prereflectively drawn in relation to the world and to others. In this sense, the body image is neither conscious nor individualistic, but “an agency that has its own memor y, habits, and hori- zons of experience” and that is permeated by one’s being with others (BI, 3). The focus in Refiguring the Ordinary moves to consider the ways in which our embodied self-understanding is radically bound to a horizon of ordinary everyday concern, and so looks to the ordinary itself for some insight into how we conceive of social, ethical, and political experience. Weiss is known for her work on the ways in which sex, gender, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png philoSOPHIA State University of New York Press

<i>Refiguring the Ordinary</i> (review)

Murphy, Ann V.
philoSOPHIA , Volume 1 (2) – Jun 5, 2012
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Gail Weiss Refiguring the Ordinary Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-21989-3 Ann V. Murphy In R efigu R i ng the OR di na Ry , Gail Weiss advances a trajector y of thought begun in Body Images (Routledge 1999), where she stressed the social, ethical, and political dimensions of embodiment. In this earlier work, Weiss brought resources from feminist theory to bear on Merleau-Ponty and Schilder’s account of the body image, or corporeal schema, a figure that illuminates the way in which the contours of the body are prereflectively drawn in relation to the world and to others. In this sense, the body image is neither conscious nor individualistic, but “an agency that has its own memor y, habits, and hori- zons of experience” and that is permeated by one’s being with others (BI, 3). The focus in Refiguring the Ordinary moves to consider the ways in which our embodied self-understanding is radically bound to a horizon of ordinary everyday concern, and so looks to the ordinary itself for some insight into how we conceive of social, ethical, and political experience. Weiss is known for her work on the ways in which sex, gender, and

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