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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790238403321

Autore

Burkitt Ian

Titolo

Bodies of thought [[electronic resource] ] : embodiment, identity, and modernity / / Ian Burkitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1999

ISBN

1-4462-2225-X

1-283-87981-6

1-4462-0277-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ([viii], 163 p.)

Disciplina

155.2

Soggetti

Body image

Body schema

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[153]-159) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Prolegomenon to Bodies of Thought; Chapter 2: The Ecology of Bodies of Thought; Chapter 3: The Body as Object: from the Grotesque to the Closed Body; Chapter 4: The Thinking Body; Chapter 5: Feminism and the Challenge to Dualism; Chapter 6: Social Relations,Embodiment and Emotions; Chapter 7: Modernity,Self and Embodiment; Conclusion:Relations and the Embodied Person; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Manoevring between constructionist and realist theories of the social actor, Bodies of Thought is an innovative assessment of Foucaultian, Eliasian and feminist approaches to the body and a sustained critique of post-Cartesian dualisms.