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Autore |
Maiese Michelle |
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Titolo |
The Mind-Body Politic [[electronic resource] /] / by Michelle Maiese, Robert Hanna |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2019.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XVIII, 320 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy of mind |
Political philosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
Political Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Political Philosophy of Mind -- Chapter 2. Three Theses Unpacked: Mind-Shaping, Collective Sociopathy, and Collective Wisdom -- Chapter 3. What is a Destructive, Deforming Institution? -- Chapter 4. Case-Study I: Higher Education in Neoliberal Nation-States -- Chapter 5. Case-Study II: Mental Health Treatment in Neoliberal Nation-States -- Chapter 6. What is a Constructive, Enabling Institution? -- Chapter 7. How To Design a Constructive, Enabling Institution -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Cognitive Walls, Cognitive-Affective Revolution, and Real-World Utopias. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency. Human beings are, necessarily, social animals who create and belong to social institutions. But social institutions take on a life of their own, and literally shape the minds of all those who belong to them, for better or worse, usually without their being self-consciously aware of it. Indeed, in contemporary neoliberal societies, it is generally for the worse. In The Mind-Body Politic, Michelle Maiese and Robert Hanna work out a new critique of contemporary social institutions by deploying the special standpoint of |
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the philosophy of mind—in particular, the special standpoint of the philosophy of what they call essentially embodied minds—and make a set of concrete, positive proposals for radically changing both these social institutions and also our essentially embodied lives for the better. |
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