Embodied Collective Memory - The Making and Unmaking of Human Nature

Informationen zum Autor Rafael F. Narváez earned a Ph.D. in sociology at The New School. He is a professor of sociology at Winona State University in Minnesota. His research interests include embodied collective memory, as well as the intersections of sociology, psychology, and biology. Klappentext The human body is not a given fact-it is acquired, achieved, and learned. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. This book discusses how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or created anew. Zusammenfassung The human body is not a given fact—it is acquired, achieved, and learned. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. This book discusses how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or created anew. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. The French Sociological Tradition2. Pierre Bourdieu3. Somatic Compliance, Somatic Deviance4. Symbolic Violence vs. Creativity5. Resistive Mechanisms (Phylogeny)6. Basic Instincts: Eros and Thanatos7. The Subject (Ontogeny)8. Biology and Meaning (Phylogeny)9. Biology and Meaning (Ontogeny)10. Embodying the Past and Embodying the Future11. An Example of Embodied Collective Memory: Race12. Layers of ECMs13. External Features of ECMs14. Internal Features of ECMs15. Perceptual Collective Memory: The Eye16. The Role of InstitutionsAppendix: Psychoanalysis as a "Failed Science"ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Rafael F. Narvaez, Rafael F. Narváez, Narvaez Rafael F.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2012
• EAN: 9780761858799
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-5879-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social, group or collective psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Behavior;Habits;Human body