The Body and Embodiment: A Philosophical Guide - Softcover

Frank Chouraqui

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786609754 ISBN 13: 9781786609755

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

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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 book investigates the ways in which the fact of human embodiment makes the notion of ambiguity central to all major areas of philosophy. The body is both active and passive, powerful and vulnerable, and it provides both access through perception and limitation through localisation. As such, it fundamentally informs ontological, political, ethical and epistemological issues.

The book takes as its starting point the devaluation of the body by philosophers from Plato to Descartes and then focuses on several dimensions of the body as investigated by post-Kantian philosophy through a discussion of the intentional body, embodied cognition and the politicization of the body. The book engages with both the ‘Continental’ and ‘Anglo-American’ philosophical traditions and includes a broad range of sources and texts. The unified approach and clear writing make this lively text accessible to those working in other disciplines such as Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.

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Frank Chouraqui is university lecturer in continental philosophy in the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University. He was previously assistant professor of philosophy at Koç University. He teaches undergraduate courses on the Philosophy of Culture and Philosophical Anthropology as well as upper level and graduate courses on phenomenological themes.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1786609754
• ISBN 13: 9781786609755
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
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