Embodiment And The Meaning Of Life

Author : Jeff Noonan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773553934

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Embodiment and the Meaning of Life by Jeff Noonan Pdf

The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most familiar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong to bring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering. Technotopianism, which stems from a similarly negative view of embodied limitations, claims that we should escape sickness and death through radical human-enhancement technologies. In Embodiment and the Meaning of Life Jeff Noonan presents pessimism and technotopianism as two sides of the same coin, as both begin from the premise that the limitations of embodied life are inherently negative. He argues that rather than rendering life pointless, the tragic failures that mark life are fundamental to the good of human existence. The necessary limitations of embodied being are challenges for each person to live well, not only for their own sake, but for the sake of the future of the human project. Meaning is not a given, Noonan suggests, but rather the product of labour upon ourselves, others, and the world. Meaningful labour is threatened equally by unjust social systems and runaway technological development that aims to replace human action, rather than liberate it. Calling on us to draw conceptual connections between finitude, embodiment, and the meaning of life, this book shows that seeking the common good is our most viable and materially realistic source of optimism about the future.

Author : Nicholas Mowad
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438475578

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Meaning and Embodiment by Nicholas Mowad Pdf

Examines Hegel’s insights regarding the complexity and significance of embodiment in human life, identity, and experience. Meaning and Embodiment provides a detailed study of Hegel’s anthropology to examine the place of corporeity or embodiment in human life, identity, and experience. In Hegel’s view, to be human means in part to produce one’s own spiritual embodiment in culture and habits. Whereas for animals nature only has meaning relative to biological drives, humans experience meaning in a way that transcends these limits, and which allows for aesthetic appreciation of beauty and sublimity, nihilistic feelings of meaninglessness, and the complex and different systems of symbolic speech and action characterizing language and culture. By elucidating the different forms of embodiment, Nicholas Mowad shows how for Hegel we are embodied in several different ways at once: as extended, subject to physical-chemical forces, living, and human. Many difficult problems in philosophy and everyday experience come down to using the right concept of embodiment. Mowad traces Hegel’s account through the growth and development of the body, gender and racial difference, cycles of sleep and waking, and sensibility and mental illness. “This book offers a lucid explanation of very difficult Hegelian concepts in clear language, along with a passionate, searing, provocative, and intelligent foray into questions of race and gender.” — Lydia Moland, Colby College

Author : Jeff Noonan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9780773553484

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Embodiment and the Meaning of Life by Jeff Noonan Pdf

A brazen defence of the good of human limitations in the face of naive technological optimism.

Author : Sergio Salvatore,Viviana Fini,Terri Mannarini,Jaan Valsiner,Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030194970

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Symbolic Universes in Time of (Post)Crisis by Sergio Salvatore,Viviana Fini,Terri Mannarini,Jaan Valsiner,Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri Pdf

This book investigates whether, how and where the cultural milieu of European societies has changed as a result of the socio-economics crisis. To do so, it adopts a psycho-cultural approach, which views the cultural milieu as a set of meanings, placing the generalized image social actors have of themselves, the world, events and their relationships in the context of the socio-political and institutional environment, including policies. By analyzing the changes in cultural milieu and social identity, the book develops strategic and methodological guidelines for the design of post-crisis policies, providing a concept of how the cultural dynamics are associated with certain individual characteristics and specific socio-economic phenomena.

Author : Keri Mangis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1732991200

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Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness: A Memoir of New Beginnings by Keri Mangis Pdf

A determined truth-seeker craving success and belonging unexpectedly meets her journeying soul, leading to greater self-acceptance, a deeper understanding of the mysteries of life and death, and the realization that every new beginning provides a rich opportunity for healing and personal evolution.

Author : Nicholas Mowad
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438475592

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Meaning and Embodiment by Nicholas Mowad Pdf

Meaning and Embodiment provides a detailed study of Hegel's anthropology to examine the place of corporeity or embodiment in human life, identity, and experience. In Hegel's view, to be human means in part to produce one's own spiritual embodiment in culture and habits. Whereas for animals nature only has meaning relative to biological drives, humans experience meaning in a way that transcends these limits, and which allows for aesthetic appreciation of beauty and sublimity, nihilistic feelings of meaninglessness, and the complex and different systems of symbolic speech and action characterizing language and culture. By elucidating the different forms of embodiment, Nicholas Mowad shows how for Hegel we are embodied in several different ways at once: as extended, subject to physical-chemical forces, living, and human. Many difficult problems in philosophy and everyday experience come down to using the right concept of embodiment. Mowad traces Hegel's account through the growth and development of the body, gender and racial difference, cycles of sleep and waking, and sensibility and mental illness.

Author : Jeff Noonan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793636959

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Embodied Humanism by Jeff Noonan Pdf

There are many answers to the question of why life is worth living, but they all presuppose that good lives are sensuously enjoyable. Time seems to stand still in the moment when we enjoy food and drink, peaceful, laughing relationships with friends, or lay quietly, allowing the beauty of nature and human creations to unfold before us. Embodied Humanism: Toward Solidarity and Sensuous Enjoyment explores ways that enjoyment is also political. The history of political struggle is a history of fighting back against silencing, hunger, and violent domination, but also fighting for social peace, need-satisfaction, voice, and democratic power. Tracing the values of embodied humanism across history and across cultures and identities, the book finds a more comprehensive universal humanist ethic around which old and emerging struggles can be unified. Ultimately, Jeff Noonan argues, these struggles can be directed towards creating institutional structure and individual dispositions that will secure the social conditions in which our capacities for receptive openness and delight are satisfied for each and all.

Author : Niva Piran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190841881

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Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment by Niva Piran Pdf

For five decades, negative body image has been a major focus of study due to its association with psychological and social morbidity, including eating disorders. However, more recently the body image construct has broadened to include positive ways of living in the body, enabling greater understanding of embodied well-being, as well as protective factors and interventions to guide the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment is the first comprehensive, research-based resource to address the breadth of innovative theoretical concepts and related practices concerning positive ways of living in the body, including positive body image and embodiment. Presenting 37 chapters by world-renowned experts in body image and eating behaviors, this state-of-the-art collection delineates constructs of positive body image and embodiment, as well as social environments (such as families, peers, schools, media, and the Internet) and therapeutic processes that can enhance them. Constructs examined include positive embodiment, body appreciation, body functionality, body image flexibility, broad conceptualization of beauty, intuitive eating, and attuned sexuality. Also discussed are protective factors, such as environments that promote body acceptance, personal safety, diversity, and activism, and a resistant stance towards objectification, media images, and restrictive feminine ideals. The handbook also explores how therapeutic interventions (including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Dissonance, and many more) and public health and policy initiatives can inform scholarly, clinical, and prevention-based work in the field of eating disorders.

Author : Tanya Titchkosky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442691551

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Reading and Writing Disability Differently by Tanya Titchkosky Pdf

Mixing rigorous social theory with concrete analysis, Reading and Writing Disability Differently unpacks the marginality of disabled people by addressing how the meaning of our bodily existence is configured in everyday literate society. Tanya Titchkosky begins by illustrating how news media and policy texts reveal dominant Western ways of constituting the meaning of people, and the meaning of problems, as they relate to our understandings of the embodied self. Her goal is to configure disability as something more than a problem, and beyond simply a positive or a negative, and to treat texts on disability as potential sites to examine neo-liberal culture. Titchkosky holds that through an exploration of the potential behind limited representations of disability, we can relate to disability as a meaningful form of resistance to the restricted normative order of contemporary embodiment. Incorporating a textual analysis of ordinary depictions of disability, this innovative study promises to represent embodied differences in new ways and alter our imaginative relations to the politics of the body.

Author : Hillary L. PhD McBride
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493433896

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The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary L. PhD McBride Pdf

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body. Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of your body or like it isn't good enough. Maybe your body is riddled with stress, pain, or the effects of trauma. Maybe you think of your body as an accessory to what you believe you really are--your mind. Maybe your experiences with racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, or sizeism have made you believe your body isn't the right kind of body. Whatever the reason, many of us don't feel at home in our bodies. But being disconnected from ourselves as bodies means being disconnected from truly living and from the interconnection that weaves us all together. Psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explores the broken and unhealthy ideas we have inherited about our body. Embodiment is the way we are in the world, and our embodiment is heavily influenced by who we have been allowed to be. McBride shows that many of us feel disembodied due to colonization, racism, sexism, and patriarchy--destructive systems that rank certain bodies as less valuable, beautiful, or human than others. Embracing our embodiment can liberate us from these systems. As we come to understand the world around us and the stories we've been told, we see that our perspective of reality often limits how we see and experience ourselves, each other, and what we believe is Sacred. Instead of the body being a problem to overcome, our bodies can be the very place where we feel most alive, the seat of our spirituality and our wisdom. The Wisdom of Your Body offers a compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied living. Weaving together illuminating research, stories from her work as a therapist, and deeply personal narratives of healing from a life-threatening eating disorder, a near-fatal car accident, and chronic pain, McBride invites us to reclaim the wisdom of the body and to experience the wholeness that has been there all along. End-of-chapter questions and practices are included.

Author : Bonnie Gintis
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781556436079

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Engaging the Movement of Life by Bonnie Gintis Pdf

Engaging the Movement of Life is an invitation to discover new ways to experience health and embodiment. Osteopathic physician and Continuum Movement teacher Bonnie Gintis offers an approach that encompasses fluid movement, open attention, and awareness of sensation and breath as empowering practices to enrich all aspects of life. She presents a philosophy in which the body is a portal to “something greater”—an opportunity to join a grand experiment in deepening consciousness and connectedness. Moving fluidly increases our vitality, just as water in the natural world is vitalized by flowing freely. Chronicling a path that encompasses views of body, mind, and spirit as a self-healing intercommunicating whole, Engaging the Movement of Life is equally useful for medical professionals, bodyworkers, exercise enthusiasts, and spiritual seekers.

Author : Philip Shepherd
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781623171780

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Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd Pdf

There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives—peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us. In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd shows the countless ways in which we are persuaded to separate from the body and live in the head. Disconnected from the body’s intelligence, we also disconnect from the wholeness of the present. This schism within us is the primary source of stress not just in our personal lives, but for the systems of the planet. Drawing from neuroscience, anthropology, physics, the arts, myth, personal stories and his experiences helping people around the world to experience wholeness, Philip Shepherd illuminates what true wholeness means and offers practices designed to help readers soften into the intelligence of the body. Radical Wholeness is a call to action: to recover wholeness and experience a new way of being.

Author : Sue Campbell,Letitia Maynell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271048086

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Embodiment and Agency by Sue Campbell,Letitia Maynell Pdf

Author : E. S. Amchin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781456891657

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Embodiment by E. S. Amchin Pdf

A Divinely inspired visionary work, Embodiment can be defined as a state of manifestation, integration, unification, or incarnation, all terms that may be used to describe this state of Being, and the profound connection and relationship of the Creator and the Creation. It is a book conceived in celebration of the awakening of the Sacred Embodied Soul. Interpreted as written, this material is self-evident, stimulating awareness of the evolving spiritual nature, which provides an anchor for the Soul Life's continuing journey. Embodiment is a Sacred Birthing guide in its true sense, as the means in which human existence becomes the product of the process by which, out of Spirit, an Awakened Soul is Born. This collection of writings was crafted for all who seek the answers to Life's origins supporting the eternal mothering aspects of the Human Soul, by adding personal reflective insights into understanding this enlightened connection that leads to true Soul Self-Awareness. Embodiment challenges and expands the human intelligence to investigate, in a spiritual perspective, that which has its origins in the archives of human history and folklore. The keys to unlock these spiritual truths are found in the presence of the intangible Sacred Essence that emanates a reflection of the Creator's Heart of Love and Sustenance, which presents itself within the Human Soul's Life Experience. To this quest the author has taken up the Banner of Faith and Trust in the ultimate search to discover an immortal connection between the Human Soul and its Divine Source.

Author : Nancy K Dess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781000197204

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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment by Nancy K Dess Pdf

This is a collection of pithy and accessible essays on the nature and implications of human embodiment which explore the concept of ‘human being’ in the most unprecedented manner through seemingly disparate academic disciplines. With contributions from key researchers from around the world, this book engages with embodiment through the lens of "new materialism". It eschews the view that human beings are debased by materiality and creates a vision of humans as fully embodied creatures situated in a richly populated living planet. The essays in this volume will illustrate and foster new materialist thought in areas including psychology, astrophysics, geology, biology, sociology, philosophy, and the performing arts. The book’s engaging and enlightening content is made accessible to readers with relatively little background in the various academic disciplines. This is an important and fascinating text which invites readers to explore and expand their understanding and experience of embodiment. It will be particularly useful for postgraduate students and scholars of theoretical and philosophical psychology, philosophy of the mind, and social and cultural anthropology.