Embodiment and education : exploring creatural existence

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    • O'Loughlin, Marjorie

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Embodiment and education : exploring creatural existence

by Marjorie O'Loughlin

(Philosophy and education / Robert E. Floden, Kenneth R. Howe, series editors, v. 15)

Springer, c2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and index

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Description

This book brings together some of the most important philosophical works on the body. These are then subjected to a critical analysis of what bodies 'do' and 'have done to them' in contemporary social life and particularly in education. The author acknowledges the importance of discursive bodies while focusing attention on the active, experiencing body and its anchoring in the 'creatural'. Thinking in these terms, the author argues, can better situate human beings in their environment, thus emphasizing a kind of 'ecological notion of subjectivity', in which place-based existence is understood anew.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction The Scopic Regime and the Ordering of the World. Creatural Embodiment. Working Bodies. Emotion, Sociality and Embodiment. Embodied Citizenship Epilogue References Index

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