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Moving Bodies - Embodied Minds and the World That We Made (Hardcover)
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Moving Bodies - Embodied Minds and the World That We Made (Hardcover)
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Increasingly we have come to live in our heads, leaving our bodies
behind. The consequences have been far-reaching, of which cognitive
theory has warned us, advocating a 'return to the body.' This book
employs several case studies-kings performing in ballets, sea
captains dancing with natives, nationalists engaged in gymnastics
exercises-to demonstrate what has been lost and what could be
gained by a more embodied approach to living, to history. These
curious movements were ways to be, to think, to know, to imagine,
and to will. They highlight the limits of historical explanations
focusing on cultural factors and question currently fashionable
'cultural' and 'post-modern' perspectives. Bodies, cognitive theory
tells us, are the same regardless of historical context, and they
engage in the same intentional activities. Returning to our bodies
and their movements enables us not only to explain historical
actions anew, but also to understand ourselves better.
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