Absent Body
The body plays a central role in shaping our experience of the world. We gaze at the world, but rarely see our own eyes. Why, then, are we so frequently oblivious to our own bodies? We are even less aware of our internal organs and the physiological processes that keep us alive.… Celý popis ↓
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Absent Body
The body plays a central role in shaping our experience of the world. We gaze at the world, but rarely see our own eyes. Why, then, are we so frequently oblivious to our own bodies?
We are even less aware of our internal organs and the physiological processes that keep us alive. We may be unable to explain how we perform the simplest of acts. In this fascinating work, Drew Leder examines all the ways in which the body is absent--forgotten, alien, uncontrollable, obscured.In part 1, Leder explores a wide range of bodily functions with an eye to structures of concealment and alienation.
He discusses not only perception and movement, skills and tools, but a variety of bodies that philosophers tend to overlook: the inner body with its anonymous rhythms; the sleeping body into which we nightly lapse; the prenatal body from which we first came to be. Leder thereby seeks to
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