Brenda Farnell

Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory (eBook, ePUB)

I move therefore I am

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Using the work of Rom Harré, Roy Bhaskar, Charles Varela and Drid Williams this book applies causal powers theory to a revised ontology of personhood, and discusses why the adequate location of human agency is crucial for the social sciences. The breakthrough lies in fact that new realism affords us an account of embodied human agency as a generative causal power that is grounded in our corporeal materiality, thereby connecting natural/physical and cultural worlds.

Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory is compelling reading for students and academics of the social sciences, especially anthropologists and sociologists of 'the body', and those interested in new developments in critical realism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136645259
• Artikelnr.: 38272573

Autorenporträt

Brenda Farnell is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

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