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The Body and Embodiment - A Philosophical Guide (Paperback)
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The Body and Embodiment - A Philosophical Guide (Paperback)
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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.
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