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Burkitt, Ian

 
9780803988491: Bodies of Thought: Embodiment, Identity and Modernity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803988494 ISBN 13 : 9780803988491
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

In this incisive and truly impressive book, Ian Burkitt critically addresses the dualism between mind and body, thought and emotion, rationality and irrationality, and the mental and the material, which haunt the post-Cartesian world.

Drawing on the work of contemporary social theorists and feminist writers, he argues that thought and the sense of being a person is inseparable from bodily practices within social relations, even though such active experience may be abstracted and expanded upon through the use of symbols. Overcoming classic dualisms in social thought, Burkitt argues that bodies are not purely the constructs of discourses of power: they are also productive, communicative, and invested with powerful capacities for chang

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À propos de l'auteur

Ian Burkitt is in the Department of Social and Economic Studies, University of Bradford

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In this incisive book, Ian Burkitt critically addresses the dualisms between mind and body, thought and emotion, rationality and irrationality, and the mental and the material, which haunt the post-Cartesian world.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
SAGE Publications Ltd
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803988494
ISBN 13 
9780803988491
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
163
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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