1 option
The social body : habit, identity and desire / Nick Crossley.
LIBRA B812 .C76 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crossley, Nick, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Dualism.
- Physical Description:
- 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
- Summary:
- This book explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. It provides an accessible review of the contemporary social science debates on the body, and develops a coherent new perspective.
- Nick Crossley critically reviews the literature on mind and body, and also on the body and society. He draws on theoretical insights from the work of Gilbert Ryle, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, George Herbert Mead and Pierre Bourdieu, and shows how the work of these writers overlaps in interesting and important ways which, when combined, provide the basis for a persuasive and robust account of human embodiment.
- The Social Body provides a timely review of the theoretical approaches to the sociology of the body. It offers new insights, and a coherent new perspective on the body. It will be valuable reading for students and academics in sociology, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and cultural studies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761966404
- 0761966390
- OCLC:
- 45736354
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.