Emergent Flesh
Phusiopoiesis and Ancient Arts of Training
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2348857 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debra Hawhee (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-157 |
| Publication date | 2001-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0193723501252003 |
| OpenAlex | W2006058175 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article examines connections between ancient training of the mind and body to delineate a concept of phusiopoiesis, the production of one's nature. The category of nature (phusis) for the presocratics and sophists operates not as an essential and unchangeable state, but rather as a malleable disposition, one that can be altered through a process of production (poiesis). Such a configuration of phusis in pre-Socratic fragments, Hippocratic treatises, and philosophical discussions of the body, medicine, and training holds implications for ancient training practices, most especially challenging assumptions about the category of natural talent thought to be necessary for success as a rhetor or athlete. This bodily transformation entails at least three dynamics of phusiopoietic training: friendship, masochism, and erotics
Aesthetics · Alchemy · Art · Disposition · Epistemology · Flesh · Friendship · Literature · Natural (archaeology · Sociology · Socratic method · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
A history of education in antiquity.
Before sexuality
Περὶ Φύσεωϛ. A Study of the Conception of Nature among the Pre-Socratics
The Hot and the Cold, the Dry and the Wet in Greek Philosophy
Constructions of the Classical Body
Clouds
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens
A thousand plateaus
Early Greek Science
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |