Embodiments - From the Body to the Body Politic

Informationen zum Autor JAMES MENSCH is a professor of philosophy at Saint Francis Xavier University in Canada. He is the author of nine books that range in content from Husserlian phenomenology to theology to the problem of otherness. Klappentext How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? This book uses Merleau-Ponty's concept of 'intertwining' - the presence of one's self in the world and of the world in one's self - to understand the ideas that define political life.How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? This book uses Merleau-Ponty's concept of 'intertwining' - the presence of one's self in the world and of the world in one's self - to understand the ideas that define political life.

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• Authors: James R. Mensch, James Richard Mensch
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2009
• EAN: 9780810125612
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2561-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Northwestern University Studie; Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Northwestern University Studie; Studies in Phenomenology and E
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day