Philosophizing the Body Physical, Social, Psychosomatic and Spiritual Dimensions: Papers Presented at the 40th Annual Research Seminar of ACPI Held at Vijnananilayam, Janampet, Eluru, 22-25 October 2015

includes index and biblioraphy

Phenomenological and Existential Perspectives..........1 Modernity and exile of the body..........3 Liberating the Body: Mythonomologic Resources..13 Humans as bodily: A phenomenological Probe..........27 BOdy, Desire and Insatibility...............41 BOdy, Gaze, Shame and Counter-gaze..........51 Body and Consciousness: From Somatic Correlates to Causes.......65 Social, Political and Gender Issues...................75 Body, Bio-Politics and Bioethics.....77 Stereotyped bodies....87 Humans for Sale: Objectification, commodification and reification of Human Beings.........101 A Medieval Perspective on the Body...........115 In search of woman: Re-making ourselves.....127 Body, Gender and Sexuality in Family...........137 Approaches of Science and technology.............149 Is the body merely bodily?: Reflections on the human body as a symbol in Bio and medical Sciences...........151 Redesigning the human Body in Science and Technology.....161 Body in the Media: Organs without Body......173 Spiritual Dimension.............185 The body of the Earthlings in Laudato si ...........................187 Fasting and feasing : Differing philosophies of the Body.........195 Body, Suffering, Death and Afterlife..........203 The buddhist Concept of the body.............215 The body in Saiva Siddhanta.......225 A meditative reflections on the Human Body: Body as media of Dialogue and COmmunication..............237