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Springer Embodiment And Education Exploring Creatural Existence by Marjorie OLoughlin
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. _x000D__x000D__x000D_The author acknowledges the importance of discursive bodies while focusing attention on the active, experiencing body and its anchoring in the creatural._x000D__x000D__x000D_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._x000D_ _x000D_Acknowledgements Introduction The Scopic Regime and the Ordering of the World. Creatural Embodiment. Working Bodies. Emotion, Sociality and Embodiment. Embodied Citizenship Epilogue References Index_x000D_