The Mind-Body Politic
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Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency. Human beings are, necessarily, social animals who create and belong to social institutions. But social institutions take on a life of their own, and literally shape the minds of all those who belong to them, for better or worse, usually without their being self-consciously aware of it. Indeed, in contemporary neoliberal societies, it is generally for the worse. In The Mind-Body Politic, Michelle Maiese and Robert Hanna work out a new critique of contemporary social institutions by deploying the special standpoint of the philosophy of mind--in particular, the special standpoint of the philosophy of what they call essentially embodied minds--and make a set of concrete, positive proposals for radically changing both these social institutions and also our essentially embodied lives for the better.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:3030195481
ISBN13:9783030195489
Release Date:August 2020
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"
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