Record Nr.

UNINA9910146396003321

Autore

Csepregi Gabor

Titolo

The clever body / / Gabor Csepregi

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Calgary [Alta.], : University of Calgary Press, c2006

ISBN

1-280-94669-5

9786610946693

1-55238-312-1

1-4294-1162-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 198 pages)

Disciplina

128/.6

Soggetti

Body, Human - Philosophy

Mind and body

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references: p. (175-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Disembodiment -- The clever body -- Autonomy -- Dynamic striving -- The carrying body -- Endogenous capabilities -- Sensibility -- The pathic aspect -- Delicacy of the body -- Wider spectrum of the senses -- Style and atmosphere -- Spontaneity -- The forming body -- The capacity for inventing -- Improvisation -- Spontaneous morality -- Imitation -- The mimetic body -- Conversation -- The involuntary in imitation -- Awareness of the body -- Sympathetic communication -- Rhythm -- Interaction rhythm -- Aesthetic experience of movement -- Rhythmically organized movement -- Dance -- Surrender to the body -- Memory -- The body as a temporal form -- Skill and habit -- Inventive style -- The gift of automatism -- Imagination -- Motor imagination -- Feeling and inverse imagination -- Creative hands.

Sommario/riassunto

In Western civilisation, we have come to regard the body as an instrument or a machine that responds to external challenges but does not have a life or creativity of its own. Author Gabor Csepregi describes in detail the nature and scope of these innate abilities - our sensibility, spontaneity, mimetic faculty, sense of rhythm, memory, and imagination - and reflects on their significance in human life.