Meaning and embodiment : human corporeity in Hegel's anthropology / Nicholas Mowad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mowad, Nicholas, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Human body (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xxvii, 313 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]

Contents:

Chapter 1 That the Term "Body" Is Equivocal p. 1

The Essence of Embodiment p. 2

Dimensions of Embodiment p. 5

The Materiality of the Soul p. 16

Multidimensional Embodiment p. 17

Chapter 2 The Concept of Spirit p. 25

The "Idea" and Hegel's "Idealism" p. 25

The Idea in Nature: Life and Death p. 31

The Concept of Spirit as the Idea Knowing Itself in Its Other: A Close Reading of §381 p. 35

Revelation p. 43

The Soul as Natural Spirit p. 45

Whether the Anthropology Is Normative p. 50

Chapter 3 Immersion in Nature p. 55

What Hegel Means by "Soul [Seele]" p. 56

The Soul of the World; or, That Meaning in Nature Is Not Fabricated Arbitrarily p. 59

Reconciling Different Explanations of the Same Phenomenon p. 61

Anthropological Description Is Interpretation, Not Classification p. 64

Examples of Finding Meaning in Nature p. 69

What "Race" Is Not, and What It Means for Hegel p. 73

What Can Be Salvaged in Hegel's Philosophy of Race? p. 81

The Extent to Which Race Can Be Transcended p. 87

The Individual Soul p. 92

Chapter 4 The Inner World of the Soul p. 97

The Ages of Life p. 100

Life and Death p. 102

What Lies on the Surface of Hegel's Theory of Gender p. 109

The Law of the Netherworld and Radical Guilt p. 113

Waking from Sleep and the Masculine Pathos p. 116

Sleep as a Transcendental Condition of Waking Experience p. 120

Chapter 5 Sensation and the Oblivion of the Body p. 127

Seeking a Middle Term p. 128

The Five Senses p. 130

Setting the Stones in Motion p. 136

The Soul as "Mixed" with Its Body p. 142

The Embodiment of the Emotions p. 145

Chapter 6 Perverse Self-Knowledge p. 151

From Sensation to Feeling p. 151

The Displacement of the Self p. 157

Examples and Analysis p. 160

Chapter 7 Mental Illness and Therapy p. 169

What It Means to Say That Mental Illness Is Pathological p. 170

Mental Illness as "Self-Feeling" and Sickness of the Soul p. 172

Mental Illness as Excessive Attachment p. 177

Habit as Therapy p. 179

Hegel and Foucault p. 184

Chapter 8 The Social Dimension of Human Embodiment p. 191

Habit as a Social "Sense" with Unlimited Scope p. 192

Internalization, Imagination, and Ethical Life p. 196

The Enduring Ambiguity of Nature p. 200

Assigning Meaning to the Human Body p. 202

"Double Consciousness": Feeling in Its Immediacy as Ideology p. 204

"The nation is sick, trouble is in the land, confusion is all around" p. 212

Habit and the Unmooring of a Reined Culture p. 214

Racial Politics and Democracy p. 220.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438475578

1438475578

OCLC:

1090707196