Description
| Product ID: | 9781009245630 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Moving Bodies |
| Subtitle: | Embodied Minds and the World That We Made |
| Authors: | Author: Erik Ringmar |
| Page Count: | 250 |
| Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy, History of ideas, Social theory, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, History of ideas, Social theory, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A history of movements and of how we make sense of the world. Cognitive activities happen as bodies interact with their environment. In order to be, think, know, imagine and will, we need to move. Historical case-studies include dancing kings and sea-captains, and nationalists who engage in gymnastic exercises. Increasingly we have come to live in our heads, leaving our bodies behind. The consequences have been far-reaching, of which cognitive theory has warned us, advocating a ''return to the body.'' This book employs several case studies-kings performing in ballets, sea captains dancing with natives, nationalists engaged in gymnastics exercises-to demonstrate what has been lost and what could be gained by a more embodied approach to living, to history. These curious movements were ways to be, to think, to know, to imagine, and to will. They highlight the limits of historical explanations focusing on cultural factors and question currently fashionable ''cultural'' and ''post-modern'' perspectives. Bodies, cognitive theory tells us, are the same regardless of historical context, and they engage in the same intentional activities. Returning to our bodies and their movements enables us not only to explain historical actions anew, but also to understand ourselves better. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-01-26 |
