The incorporated self : interdisciplinary perspectives on embodiment
The Incorporated Self demonstrates that although embodiment has long been a central concern of the theoretical humanities, its potential to alter epistemology and open up new areas of non-dualistic inquiry has not been pursued far enough. This anthology collects the works of scholars from a broad range of disciplines, each examining the nature of the body and the necessity of embodiment to the human experience - for our self-awareness, our sense of identity, and the workings of the mind. The essays offer a sustained attack on Cartesian dualism and methodological positivism. The Incorporated Self is suitable for undergraduate and graduate seminars on mind-body relations, the psychology of perception, the nature of thought, and questions of social, political, and individual identity. This interdisciplinary book is an important work for philosophers, literary theorists, historians, sociologists, and psychologists
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165 pages ; 23 cm
9780847682812, 9780847682829, 0847682811, 084768282X
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In search of real bodies : theories and/of embodiment / Michael O'Donovan-Anderson
Darwinian bodies : against institutionalized metaphysical dualism / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
The ghost of embodiment : is the body a natural or a cultural entity? / Edward S. Casey
Phantoms, lost limbs, and the limits of the body-self / Stephen Meuse
Identity and the subject in performance : body, self and social world / Loren Noveck
What meaning in her breast? : Ambivalence of the body as sign and site of identity in Beloved and The Woman warrior / Michele Janette
Hamlet, Nietzsche, and visceral knowledge / David Hillman
Living words : physiognomy and aesthetic language / Colin Sample
The mindful body : embodiment and cognitive science / Evan Thompson
Science and things : on scientific method as embodied access to the world / Michael O'Donovan-Anderson