The Body and Embodiment

Released on by Frank Chouraqui
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  • The Body and Embodiment Book Detail

  • Author : Frank Chouraqui
  • Release Date : 2021-04-07
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 269
  • ISBN 13 : 1786609762
  • File Size : 91,91 MB
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The Body and Embodiment by Frank Chouraqui PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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