On this module, students will explore the traditions of thought that surround the operations and abilities of the human body and expose these traditions to critical reflection, as we challenge the systemic inequalities, inaccurate assumptions, and perceived limitations of our embodiment. As a final year module, the body provides an ideal topic of focus for Liberal Arts students, who will be encouraged to draw their experiences in various disciplines into dialogue with the thinkers encountered on this module to flesh out their understanding and explorations of the cultural significance of the human body. Students will consider philosophical, legal, cultural, social, artistic and literary conceptualisations of the human body, and explore how the different textures of these approaches align with and contradict the multiplicities of human experience.
