Tattoos - Philosophy for Everyone (eBook)

I Ink, Therefore I Am

Robert Arp (Herausgeber)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-25277-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Covering philosophical issues ranging from tattooed religious symbols to a feminist aesthetics of tattoo, Tattoos and Philosophy offers an enthusiastic analysis of inking that will lead readers to consider the nature of the tattooing arts in a new and profound way.

• Contains chapters written by philosophers (most all with tattoos themselves), tattoo artists, and tattoo enthusiasts that touch upon many areas in Western and Eastern philosophy
• Enlightens people to the nature of tattoos and the tattooing arts, leading readers to think deeply about tattoos in new ways
• Offers thoughtful and humorous insights that make philosophical ideas accessible to the non-philosopher

Autor

Robert Arp is a philosopher and ontologist who has taught at numerous colleges and universities. He is the author of Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving (2008) and a co-author of Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well (2011), What's Good on TV: Understanding Ethics through Television (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Philosophy DeMYSTiFieD (2011); in addition, he is editor of South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006). Series Editor Fritz Allhoff is an associate professor in the philosophy department at Western Michigan University, as well as a senior research fellow at the Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, he is also the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey and Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food and Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). His academic research interests engage various facets of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history and philosophy of science.

Inhalt

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 Overview
and 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 and
Hermeneutical 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 Liberation
65

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 Self
96

Rachel C. Falkenstern

9 My Tattoo May Be Permanent, But My Memory of It Isn't
109

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 Embodied
Freedom 135

Jonathan Heaps

SHEET VI EXPERIENCES AND STORIES SURROUNDING TATTOOS
149

12 Never Merely 'There': Tattooing as a Practice of Writing
and a Telling of Stories 151

Wendy Lynne Lee

13 Something Terribly Flawed: Philosophy and 'The
Illustrated 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 Tattoo
206

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's
Existence 242

Robert Arp

Notes on Contributors 261

Rezensionen

Review from The Scotman 8 June 2012

It's about time tattoos got a philosophical treatment like
this!



Michelle "Bombshell" McGee

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.2.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy for Everyone
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy for Everyone
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy for Everyone
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Art & Applied Arts • Art History & Theory • Body Art • Cultural Studies • Feminism • Kulturwissenschaften • Kunstgeschichte u. -theorie • Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst • LA Ink • Philosophie • Philosophy • popular culture • Self Expression • Volkskultur
• ISBN-10: 1-118-25277-2 / 1118252772
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-25277-2 / 9781118252772