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Record Nr.

UNINA9910311931403321

Autore

Brinkmann Svend

Titolo

Persons and their minds : towards an integrative theory of the mediated mind / / Svend Brinkmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2017

London ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

9781317226659

1317226658

9781317226666

1317226666

9781315623658

131562365X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation

Classificazione

PSY000000PSY003000

Disciplina

128/.2

Soggetti

Thought and thinking

Mind and body

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series editor's preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The concepts of mind and person -- The mind and the brain -- The mind and the body -- The mind and society -- The mind and things -- The mind between the brain and culture -- Persons and disordered minds references.

Sommario/riassunto

Today's approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the cultural and discursive approaches, with their frequent neglect of the material sides of human life. Persons and their Minds seeks to develop an integrative theory of the mind with room for both brain and culture. Brinkmann's remarkable and thought-provoking work is one of the first books to integrate brain research with phenomenology, social practice studies and actor-network theory, all



of which are held together by the concept of the person.