Bodies and Artefacts vol 1.

Joseph Fracchia is Professor Emeritus of Modern European Intellectual History in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. His major research interest is in the field of historical theory, with a focus on a materialist conception of history.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on NotesIntroduction: Exposing the Corporeal Roots of Historical Materialism and Moving toward a Corporeal SemioticsPart 1 Reconstructing Historical Materialism 'Up from the Body': The Corporeal Foundations of a Materialist Conception of History and the Guiding Threads of a Historical-Materialist WissenschaftIntroduction to Part 11 An Aufhebung of Philosophy and the Genesis of a Materialist Conception of History: Objectification and Marx's Corporeal Turn2 From the First Corporeal Fact of Human Being to the Moments of History: Corporeality, Modes of Objectification, and Ways of Worldmaking3 The Dimensions and Methodological Leitfaden of a Historical-Materialist WissenschaftPart 2 Mapping Human Corporeal OrganisationIntroduction to Part 2. Toward a Historical-Materialist Cartography of Human Corporeal Organisation4 The Body Is Not a Tabula Rasa: Clearing a Path toward a 'Hidden Bodily Problematic'5 Toward a Corporeal Cartography: Methodological Preliminaries6 Toward a Historical-Materialist Cartography of Human Corporeal Organisation (in Outline): On the Corporeal Constitution of Patterns of Human Experience, Behaviour, and Realities7 On the Corporeal Constitutions of Cognition and SubjecthoodConclusion to Part 2: What It Is Like To Be a Human: Corporeally-Constituted Patterns of Human Experience and SubjecthoodPart 3 Toward a Corporeal SemioticsIntroduction to Part 38 The 'Linguistic Turn' and Its Discontents: A Critique of Disembodied Semiotics9 The 'Cultural Turn' and Its Discontents: A Critique of Disembodied Cultural Studies10 Artefacts as Corporeal Signs; toward a Corporeal SemioticsConclusion to Part 3: Corporeal Semiotics as Measure of Social Wealth and Socio-cultural Form: On Artefactual Beneficence and MendacityPart 4 Corporeal Categories and the Critique of Sociocultural Form: Capital and Its Culture of QuantityIntroduction to Part 411 Methodological Reflections on Forms of Social Objectivity and Subjectivity: Class, Class Consciousness, and the Critique of Capitalist Cultural Form12 A 'Great Transformation': A Genealogy of Capital's Culture of Quantity13 The Commodity Form, Quantification, and the Standpoint of Capital: An Archaeology of Capital's Culture of Quantity14 The Capitalist Labour-Process and the Body in Pain: The Corporeal Depths of Marx's Concept of ImmiserationConclusion to Part 4: The Mendacity of the Vast Capitalist ArtefactAnticipatory Notes in Conclusion: A Time to Pause, a Time to Reflect, a Time to Wish, a Time to Hope: Toward a Corporeally-Grounded Vision of Human Freedom and DignityAppendicesReferencesIndex

“[This book will] appeal to scholars whose work focuses on the body and/or the senses and those that analyze built environments, human manipulation of natural spaces, or any cultural practice involving manipulation of the body.”—Lisa M. Jackson, H-Net Reviews