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Frank Chouraqui is university lecturer in continental philosophy in the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University. He was previously assistant professor of philosophy at Koç University. He teaches undergraduate courses on the Philosophy of Culture and Philosophical Anthropology as well as upper level and graduate courses on phenomenological themes.
- Introduction
Part I: Foundations and Paradigm
- The irreducibility of the Body (1): Plato
- The irreducibility of the Body (2): Augustine
- Descartes and the Interaction Problem
Part II: An Embodied World
- Husserl and the Phenomenology of the Lived Body
- Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied World
- Merleau-Ponty and “the Unmotivated Springing Forth of the World”
- Embodied Cognition: From the Ecological Approach to Enactivism
Part III: Political Bodies
- The Body Politic
- Alienation and Micro-Power
- Race, Visibility and Power
- Female Disempowerment
- Conclusion
A lively, engaging and expansive analysis of embodiment and the philosophies that have helped us to understand the complexities of lived bodies in their cultural, racial and gendered forms. Bodies and their powers and capacities constitute both cultural and power relations and are still not well understood. The Body and Embodiment serves as an excellent introduction to and overview of this most productive concept.
— Elizabeth Grosz, Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Professor, Duke University
Chouraqui has a grand and powerful vision of his subject matter and his guidance is opinionated. I am not aware of any book quite like it. The combination of a detailed exposition of key ideas, together with a user-friendly guide to primary sources, makes this book invaluable. It is an important, beautifully conceived and exciting book, and the author is an entirely reliable guide.
— Alva Noë, Professor of Philosophy, University of California Berkeley
Chouraqui’s The Body and Embodiment: A Philosophical Guide is both historical and thematic. His presentation is extremely clear and well written. It deals with both the Continental and the Analytic traditions. Chouraqui addresses different trends in the current field of philosophy. It is sufficiently clear for an Introduction and adequately nuanced for a more sophisticated audience. Unlike most works of this level of seriousness, The Body and Embodiment was written with an eye to use in courses, readings from primary sources appear in each chapter.
— Bernard Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Empire State College, State University of New York