The Social Body
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The Social Body

Habit, Identity and Desire

Nick Crossley

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The Social Body

Habit, Identity and Desire

Nick Crossley

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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.

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Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2001
ISBN
9781446225738
Edition
1
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Sociología

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