In this Book
- The Bodily Dimension in Thinking
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Daniela Vallega-Neu questions the ontological meaning of body and thinking by carefully taking into account how we come to experience thought bodily. She engages six prominent figures of the Western philosophical tradition—Plato, Nietzsche, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Foucault—and considers how they understand thinking to occur in relation to the body as well as how their thinking is itself bodily. Through a deconstructive and performative reading, she explores how their thinking reveals a bodily dimension that is prior to what classical metaphysics comes to conceive as mind-body duality. Thus, Vallega-Neu uncovers the bodily dimension that sustains their thought and their work. As she contends, the trace of the body in our thought not only exposes the strangers we are to ourselves, but may also lead to a new understanding of how we come to be who we are in relation to the world we live in.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xix
- PART THREE. Exposed Bodies
- pp. 79-81
- Concluding Prelude
- pp. 121-128
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791482742
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
63169476
Pages
158
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No