Affective Bodily Awareness

Most accounts of bodily self-awareness focus on its sensory and agentive dimensions, tracking the origins of our special relationship with our own body in the way we gain information about it and in the way we act with it. However, they often neglect a fundamental dimension of our subjective bodily life, namely, its affective dimension. This Element will discuss bodily self-awareness through the filter of its affective significance. It is organized around four core themes: (i) the relationship between bodily awareness and action in instrumental and protective contexts, (ii) the motivational role of pain and interoception, (iii) the sense of bodily ownership and its relation to the value of the body for survival, and (iv) bodily anchoring in peripersonal and egocentric awareness. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The acting body; 2. The affective body; 3. When the body becomes mine; 4. When the world is here; Outstanding questions; References.

Summary

This Element will discuss bodily self-awareness through the filter of its affective significance around four core themes: the relationship between bodily awareness and action, the motivational role of pain and interoception, the sense of bodily ownership, and bodily anchoring. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Foreword

This Element describes the principles governing bodily self-awareness that are shaped by the need to protect one's body for survival.

Product details

• Authors: Frédérique de Vignemont, Frederique De (Institut Jean Nicod and Vignemont
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009454100
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0945410-0
• Series: Elements in Philosophy of Mind
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, Neurosciences, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, Cognitive Science