Frank Chouraqui

The Body and Embodiment

A Philosophical Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781786609755
• ISBN-10: 1786609754
• Artikelnr.: 60899668

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I: Foundations and Paradigm
1. The irreducibility of the Body (1): Plato
2. The irreducibility of the Body (2): Augustine
3. Descartes and the Interaction Problem
Part II: An Embodied World
4. Husserl and the Phenomenology of the Lived Body
5. Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied World
6. Merleau-Ponty and "the Unmotivated Springing Forth of the World"
7. Embodied Cognition: From the Ecological Approach to Enactivism
Part III: Political Bodies
8. The Body Politic
9. Alienation and Micro-Power
10. Race, Visibility and Power
11. Female Disempowerment
12. Conclusion