Donn Welton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has served as Chair of the Department, and as Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. He has published widely on the phenomenology of Husserl, philosophical psychology, and issues in contemporary continental philosophy. Welton is the editor of Body and Flesh: A Philosophical Reader (Blackwell, 1998); Postmodernism and Continental Philosophy (co-edited with Hugh Silverman, 1988); and Critical Dialectical Phenomenology (co-edited with Hugh Silverman, 1987). He is the author of The Origins of Meaning: A Critical Study of the Thresholds of Husserlian Phenomenology (1983).

"Finally, those of us who teach courses on continental theories of the body will be able to say goodbye to homemade readers! This beautifully organized and indispensable anthology puts it all together for us: well-chosen selections from the foundational twentieth-century texts and clarifying contemporary commentary. An invaluable contribution for teachers, students, and scholars." Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Foundations of a Theory of the Body 1Part I Phenomenological Formulations 9Edmund Husserl 111 Material Things in Their Relation to the Aesthetic Body 11The Constitution of Psychic Reality Through the Body 23Edmund Husserl2 Soft, Smooth Hands: Husserl’s Phenomenology of the Lived-Body 38Donn Welton3 The Zero-Point of Orientation: The Placement of the I in Perceived Space 57Elmar HolensteinMartin Heidegger 954 Introduction to Being and Time 95Equipment, Action, and the World 97Dasein as Affective Responsiveness and as Understanding 103Seeing and Sight 103Hearing, Discourse, and the Call of Care 110Hands 111On Hearing the Logos 115Martin Heidegger5 The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment: Heidegger’s Thinking of Being 122David Michael LevinMaurice Merleau-Ponty 1506 Situating the Body 150The Lived Body 154The Body in Its Sexual Being 158The Natural World and the Body 166Maurice Merleau–Ponty7 Saturated Intentionality 178Anthony J. Steinbock8 Flesh and Blood: A Proposed Supplement to Merleau–Ponty 200Drew LederPart II Psycho- and Sociotropic Genealogical Analyses 211Jacques Lacan 2139 Towards a Genetic Theory of the Ego 213The See-saw of Desire 218The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Body 221Anamorphosis 223Jacques Lacan10 The Status and Significance of the Body in Lacan’s Imaginary and Symbolic Orders 232Charles W BonnerMichel Foucault: 25211 Discipline and Punish 252The History of Sexuality 269Michel Foucalt12 The Subjectification of the Body 286Alphonso Lingis13 Foucault and the Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions 307Judith ButlerPart III Towards a Semiotics of the Gendered Body 315Julia Kristeva 31714 Subject and Body 317On the Meaning of Drives 325Julia Kristeva15 The Flesh Become Word: The Body in Kristeva’s Theory 341Kelly OliverLuce Irigaray 35316 Female Desire 353Luce Irigaray17 Beyond Sex and Gender: On Luce Irigaray’s This Sex Which Is Not One 361Tina Chanter