Arp Tattoos - Philosophy for Everyone

I Ink, Therefore I Am
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-25274-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Philosophy for Everyone

Covering philosophical issues ranging from tattooed religioussymbols to a feminist aesthetics of tattoo, Tattoos andPhilosophy offers an enthusiastic analysis of inking that willlead readers to consider the nature of the tattooing arts in a newand profound way.
* Contains chapters written by philosophers (most all withtattoos themselves), tattoo artists, and tattoo enthusiasts thattouch upon many areas in Western and Eastern philosophy
* Enlightens people to the nature of tattoos and the tattooingarts, leading readers to think deeply about tattoos in newways
* Offers thoughtful and humorous insights that make philosophicalideas accessible to the non-philosopher

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arp, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Ink, Therefore I Foreword x
Rocky Rakovic
I Am, Therefore I Ink: An Introduction to Tattoos -Philosophy for Everyone: I Ink, Therefore I Am xiv
Robert Arp
Acknowledgments xxvii
SHEET I THE HISTORY AND NATURE OF TATTOOS 1
1 Tattoos and the Tattooing Arts in Perspective: An Overviewand Some Preliminary Observations 3
Charles Taliaferro and Mark Odden
2 How to Read a Tattoo, and Other Perilous Quests 14
Juniper Ellis
SHEET II TATTOOS AND ART 27
3 Are Tattoos Art? 29
Nicolas Michaud
4 Fleshy Canvas: The Aesthetics of Tattoos from Feminist andHermeneutical Perspectives 38
Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray and Tanya Rodriguez
SHEET III THE TATTOOED WOMAN 51
5 Female Tattoos and Graffiti 53
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
6 Painted Fetters: Tattooing as Feminist Liberation65
Nancy Kang
SHEET IV PERSONAL IDENTITY 81
7 Tattoo You: Personal Identity in Ink 83
Kyle Fruh and Emily Thomas
8 Illusions of Permanence: Tattoos and the Temporary Self96
Rachel C. Falkenstern
9 My Tattoo May Be Permanent, But My Memory of It Isn't109
Clancy Smith
SHEET V EXPRESSIONS OF FREEDOM 121
10 Tattoos are Forever: Bodily Freedom and the(Im)possibility of Change 123
Felipe Carvalho
11 Bearing the Marks: How Tattoos Reveal Our EmbodiedFreedom 135
Jonathan Heaps
SHEET VI EXPERIENCES AND STORIES SURROUNDING TATTOOS149
12 Never Merely 'There': Tattooing as a Practice of Writingand a Telling of Stories 151
Wendy Lynne Lee
13 Something Terribly Flawed: Philosophy and 'TheIllustrated Man' 165
Kevin S. Decker
SHEET VII ETHICAL CONCERNS 179
14 The Vice of the Tough Tattoo 181
Jennifer Baker
15 To Ink, or Not To Ink: Tattoos and Bioethics 193
Daniel Miori
16 Writing on the Body: The Modern Morality of the Tattoo206
Simon Woods
SHEET VIII EASTERN AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES 219
17 Is a Tattoo a Sign of Impiety? 221
Adam Barkman
18 Confessions of a Tattooed Buddhist Philosopher 230
Joseph J. Lynch
19 An Atheist and a Theist Discuss a Cross Tattoo and God'sExistence 242
Robert Arp
Notes on Contributors 261

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Arp is a philosopher and ontologist who has taughtat numerous colleges and universities. He is the author ofScenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of CreativeProblem Solving (2008) and a co-author of Critical Thinking:An Introduction to Reasoning Well (2011), What's Goodon TV: Understanding Ethics through Television(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Philosophy DeMYSTiFieD (2011);in addition, he is editor of South Park and Philosophy: YouKnow, I Learned Something Today (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).
Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an associate professor in the philosophydepartment at Western Michigan University, as well as a seniorresearch fellow at the Australian National University'sCentre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In additionto editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, he is alsothe volume editor or co-editor for several titles, includingWine and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey andPhilosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food andPhilosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell,2007). His academic research interests engage variousfacets of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history andphilosophy of science.