Embodiments: From the Body to the Body Politic

by James Richard Mensch

Book Overview

How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a methodology consistent with the fact of our embodiment; he uses Merleau-Ponty's concept of "intertwining"--the presence of one's self in the world and of the world in one's self--to understand the ideas that define political life.

Mensch begins his inquiry by developing a philosophical anthropology based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810125617
• ISBN13: 9780810125612
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"