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This book draws inspiration from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concept of
intercorporeality to offer a new, multidisciplinary perspective on
the body. By drawing attention to the body's ability to
simultaneously sense and be sensed, Merleau-Ponty transcends the
object-subject divide and describes how bodies are about, into, and
within other bodies. Such inherent relationality constitutes the
essence of intercorporeality, and the chapters in this book examine
such relationality from a host of diverse perspectives. The book
begins with an introductory chapter in which the editors review the
current research on bodily interaction, and introduce the notion of
intercorporeality as a potentially integrative framework. The first
section then offers four chapters devoted to clarifying theoretical
and developmental perspectives on intercorporeality. Section 2
contains three chapters that provide insight on intercorporeality
from evolutionary, historical, and cross-sectional perspectives. In
Section 3, four chapters examine the intercorporeal nature of
meaning-making during human interaction. Section 4 then presents
three chapters that explore the intercorporeal nature of
multi-agent interactions and the role that non-animate bodies
(i.e., objects) play in such interaction. Throughout all the
chapters, the authors work to integrate research in their specific
discipline into the larger, transdisciplinary notion of
intercorporeality. This collection provides an indisputably unique
perspective on bodies-in-interaction, while simultaneously offering
an interdisciplinary way forward in contemporary scholarship on
bodies, meaning, and interaction.
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Yorick Blumenfeld
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