Body and Embodiment
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 body is both active and passive, powerful and vulnerable, and it provides both access through percep… Celý popis ↓
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Body and Embodiment
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 body is both active and passive, powerful and vulnerable, and it provides both access through perception and limitation through localisation. 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 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. As such, it fundamentally informs ontological, political, ethical and epistemological issues. The book engages with both the
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