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Physical Being - A Theory for a Corporeal Psychology (Paperback, Revised)
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Physical Being - A Theory for a Corporeal Psychology (Paperback, Revised)
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Body care has never before been so much a focus of public interest,
nor have the ways we classify people by reference to their kind of
body excited such political passions. What bodies we have and how
we use them is a central concern in the art of being human. In this
book, now available in paperback, Rom Harre attempts to build a
comprehensive account of the roles our bodies play in our lives. He
argues that these roles are determined less by organic functioning
than by cultural conventions and social meanings and that, rightly
or wrongly, our type of body is fateful for the way our lives can
be lived. From among the vast array of ways our bodies and their
nature and condition enter our lives he explores three main
questions. The first concerns the" metaphysical: how we use our
bodies to determine and to express the kind of person we are. Next,
the various forms of normative judgements and public and private"
evaluations that bodily forms and functions are subjected to are
examined. Finally, the body and its parts and functions are looked
at in the light of their use both as signifiers, systems of signs,
and as blank surfaces on which significance is inscribed'. Physical
Being concludes Rom Harre's trilogy concerning the ways of being
human, and is a fascinating study of the norms and principles of
body uses.
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