Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Foundations of a Theory of Body.

Part I: Phenomenological Formulations.

Edmund Husserl.

Martin Heidegger.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Part II: Psycho- and Sociotropic Genealogical Analyses.

Jacques Lacan.

Michel Foucault.

Part III: Towards a Semiotics of the Gendered Body.

Julia Kristeva.

Luce Irigaray.

"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

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).

D. Welton, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York - Stony Brook