Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory : ""I Move Therefore I am""

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This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just 'the body&...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farnell, Brenda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Colección:Ontological explorations.
Temas:
Human body > Social aspects.
Movement, Psychology of.
Muscular sense.
Semantics.
Kinesthesis
Semantics
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Psychomotricité.
Kinesthésie.
Sémantique.
semantics.
Human body > Social aspects
Movement, Psychology of
Muscular sense
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just 'the body' at the heart of theories of social action. It draws together several lines of thinking in contemporary social science: about the human body and its movements; adequate meta-theoretical explanations of agency and causality in human action; relations between moving and talking; skill and the formation of.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (177 pages).
Bibliografía:BibliographyIndex.
ISBN:9780203805039
0203805038

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