Body and Embodiment

A Philosophical Guide

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvFrank Chouraqui

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Perfect for use at advanced undergraduate and graduate level, this is the first text to offer students a unified narrative regarding the place of the body in Western thinking. The book investigates the ways in which the fact of human embodiment makes the notion of ambiguity central to all major areas of philosophy. The body is both active and passive, powerful and vulnerable, and it provides both access through perception and limitation through localisation. As such, it fundamentally informs ontological, political, ethical and epistemological issues. The book takes as its starting point the devaluation of the body by philosophers from Plato to Descartes and then focuses on several dimensions of the body as investigated by post-Kantian philosophy through a discussion of the intentional body, embodied cognition and the politicization of the body. The book engages with both the ‘Continental’ and ‘Anglo-American’ philosophical traditions and includes a broad range of sources and texts. The unified approach and clear writing make this lively text accessible to those working in other disciplines such as Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-04-27
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor268
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786609755

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IntroductionPart I: Foundations and ParadigmThe irreducibility of the Body (1): PlatoThe irreducibility of the Body (2): AugustineDescartes and the Interaction ProblemPart II: An Embodied WorldHusserl and the Phenomenology of the Lived BodyMerleau-Ponty and the Embodied WorldMerleau-Ponty and “the Unmotivated Springing Forth of the World”Embodied Cognition: From the Ecological Approach to EnactivismPart III: Political BodiesThe Body PoliticAlienation and Micro-PowerRace, Visibility and PowerFemale DisempowermentConclusion

A lively, engaging and expansive analysis of embodiment and the philosophies that have helped us to understand the complexities of lived bodies in their cultural, racial and gendered forms. Bodies and their powers and capacities constitute both cultural and power relations and are still not well understood. The Body and Embodiment serves as an excellent introduction to and overview of this most productive concept.