Body and Embodiment - A Philosophical Guide

Informationen zum Autor Frank Chouraqui is lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University. He teaches undergraduate courses on the Philosophy of Culture and Philosophical Anthropology as well as upper level and graduate courses on phenomenological themes. Klappentext 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 body is simultaneously active and passive, powerful and vulnerable and as such, it fundamentally informs ontological, political, ethical and epistemological issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Foundations and Paradigm The irreducibility of the Body (1): PlatoThe irreducibility of the Body (2): AugustineDescartes and the Interaction Problem Part II: An Embodied World Husserl and the Phenomenology of the Lived BodyMerleau-Ponty and the Embodied WorldMerleau-Ponty and "the Unmotivated Springing Forth of the World"Embodied Cognition: From the Ecological Approach to Enactivism Part III: Political Bodies The Body PoliticAlienation and Micro-PowerRace, Visibility and PowerFemale Disempowerment Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Frank Chouraqui, Chouraqui Frank
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781786609748
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-974-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Phenomenology & Existentialism