The Social Body Habit, Identity and Desire

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Author: Nick Crossley
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9780761966401
Publishing year: 2001-03-01
No of pages: 176 pages
Weight: 270 grm
Language: English
Book binding: Paperback

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Nick Crossley Senior Lectuer in Sociology, University of Manchester

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.