The Body and Embodiment: A Philosophical Guide - Softcover

Chouraqui, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786609754 ISBN 13: 9781786609755

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Frank Chouraqui is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Leiden University, Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786609754
• ISBN 13: 9781786609755
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268