Moving Bodies - Embodied Minds and the World That We Made

"This book employs several case studies - kings performing in ballets, sea captains dancing with natives, nationalists engaged in gymnastics exercises - to demonstrate what has been lost and what could be gained by a more embodied approach to living, to history. These curious movements were ways to be, to think, to know, to imagine, and to will. They highlight the limits of historical explanations focusing on cultural factors and question currently fashionable "cultural" and "post-modern" perspectives. Bodies, cognitive theory tells us, are the same regardless of historical context, and they engage in the same intentional activities. Returning to our bodies and their movements enables us not only to explain historical actions anew, but also to understand ourselves better"--

List of contents

1. Moving bodies; 2. Being; 3. Thinking; 4. Knowing; 5. Imagining; 6. Willing; 7. The world that we made.

About the author

Erik Ringmar is Professor of Political Science at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Summary

A history of movements and of how we make sense of the world. Cognitive activities happen as bodies interact with their environment. In order to be, think, know, imagine and will, we need to move. Historical case-studies include dancing kings and sea-captains, and nationalists who engage in gymnastic exercises.

Product details

• Authors: Erik Ringmar, Erik (Ibn Haldun University Ringmar, Ringmar Erik
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781009245630
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0924563-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History of Ideas, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Cognition and cognitive psychology