1st Edition
Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory I move therefore I am
By Brenda Farnell
Copyright 2012
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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’ at the heart of theories of social action. It draws together several lines of thinking in contemporary... Read more
Chapter 1 The Primacy of Movement
Chapter 2 The Body in Social Theory
Chapter 3 A New Ontology of Personhood
Chapter 4 Movement Literacy
Chapter 5 Bourdieu’s Habitus – A Sociological Mislocation of Agency
Chapter 6 Lakoff’s and Johnson’s Metaphors – A Psychological Mislocation of Agency
Chapter 7 Verbal and Nonverbal – A Linguistic Mislocation of Agency
Chapter 8 The Ab(sense) of Kinesthesia in Western Thought
Chapter 9 Implications of Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory
Biography
Brenda Farnell is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois.
