Striking toward peace and harmony the human being is ceasely torn apart in personal, social, national life by wars, feuds, inequities and intimate personal conflicts for which there seems to be no respite. Does the human condition in interaction with others imply a constant adve…
Many people share the intuition that by turning to works of literature something can be learned about the world. One way to explain the epistemic access to the world that fictional literature provides is by comparing it to thought experiments. Both thought experiments and works …
Thinking bodies
by MacCannell, Juliet Flower, Zakarin, Laura
fromIrvine studies in the humanities
Thinking bodies
by MacCannell, Juliet Flower, Zakarin, Laura
fromIrvine studies in the humanities
Thinking bodies
by MacCannell, Juliet Flower, Zakarin, Laura
fromIrvine studies in the humanities
The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis. The contributors here consider the body in thought at the …
