Bodies of Thought - Embodiment, Identity and Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Ian Burkitt is in the Department of Social and Economic Studies, University of Bradford Klappentext In this incisive book, Ian Burkitt critically addresses the dualisms between mind and body, thought and emotion, rationality and irrationality, and the mental and the material, which haunt the post-Cartesian world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Prolegomenon to Bodies of Thought The Ecology of Bodies of Thought The Body as Object From the Grotesque to the Closed Body The Thinking Body Feminism and the Challenge to Dualism Social Relations, Embodiment and Emotions Modernity, Self and Embodiment Conclusion Relations and the Embodied Person

Product details

• Authors: Ian Burkitt, Burkitt Ian
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.1999
• EAN: 9780803988491
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-8849-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social, group or collective psychology, Social Theory;Sociology of the Body