Perspectives on Embodiment : The Intersections of Nature and Culture (Hardcover)

Introduction Part 1. Identifying Bodies and Bodily Identifications. one Critical Resistance: Foucault and Bourdieu, two The Soul of America: Whiteness and the Disappearing of Bodies in the Progressive Era, three The Abject Borders of the Body Image, four Claiming One’s Identity: A Constructivist/Narrativist Approach, Part 2. Embodied Mind: Phenomenological Approaches to Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Anthropology. five Embodied Reason, six The Challenge of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Embodiment for Cognitive Science, seven Affordances: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy, eight Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology Part 3. Rewriting the History of the Body. nine Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism, ten The Epoch of the Body: Need and Demand in Kojeve and Lacan, eleven Disciplining the Dead, twelve The Preservation and Ownership of the Body