ABSTRACT

Perspectives on Embodiment offers multiple ways of conceptualizing human corporeality. These essays collectively defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects. A central premise of this collection is that a variety of perspectives is needed to illuminate the fluid, ever-changing features of human corporeality. This book not only explores what it means to be an embodied subject, but also encourages speculation about our future bodily incarnations.

part |2 pages

PART TWO

chapter 5|2 pages

EMBODIED REASON

chapter I|3 pages

THE MARGINALIZED BODY

chapter III|2 pages

THE BODILY BASIS OF CONCEPTS

chapter |2 pages

Basic-level Categories

chapter IV|6 pages

THE BODILY BASIS OF REASON

chapter VI|7 pages

CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR AND EMBODIED REASONING

chapter 8|20 pages

EMBODIMENT AND CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY

Thomas J.Csordas

part |2 pages

PART THREE

chapter II|4 pages

RETURNING TO LACAN

chapter III|15 pages

SEX AND GENDER

chapter |6 pages

NOTES

chapter 11|1 pages

DISCIPLINING THE DEAD

chapter 12|29 pages

THE PRESERVATION AND OWNERSHIP OF THE BODY

Thomas F.Tierney

chapter |3 pages

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