Affective bodily awareness / Frédérique de Vignemont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vignemont, Frédérique de, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of mind 2633-9080

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-consciousness (Awareness).

Self-perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (70 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Most accounts of bodily self-awareness focus on its sensory and agentive dimensions, tracking the origins of our special relationship with our own body in the way we gain information about it and in the way we act with it. However, they often neglect a fundamental dimension of our subjective bodily life, namely, its affective dimension. This Element will discuss bodily self-awareness through the filter of its affective significance. It is organized around four core themes: (i) the relationship between bodily awareness and action in instrumental and protective contexts, (ii) the motivational role of pain and interoception, (iii) the sense of bodily ownership and its relation to the value of the body for survival, and (iv) bodily anchoring in peripersonal and egocentric awareness. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Introduction; 1. The acting body; 2. The affective body; 3. When the body becomes mine; 4. When the world is here; Outstanding questions; References.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2023).

ISBN:

9781009209717

100920971X

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access