Research Catalog

Title

Intercorporeality : emerging socialities in interaction / edited by Christian Meyer, Jürgen Streeck, J. Scott Jordan.

Publication

• New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Meyer, Christian (Sociologist)
• Streeck, Jürgen
• Jordan, J. Scott

Description

xlix, 390 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

" This book draws inspiration from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concept of intercorporeality to offer a new, multidisciplinary perspective on the body. By drawing attention to the body's ability to simultaneously sense and be sensed, Merleau-Ponty transcends the object-subject divide and describes how bodies are about, into, and within other bodies. Such inherent relationality constitutes the essence of intercorporeality, and the chapters in this book examine such relationality from a host of diverse perspectives. The book begins with an introductory chapter in which the editors review the current research on bodily interaction, and introduce the notion of intercorporeality as a potentially integrative framework. The first section then offers four chapters devoted to clarifying theoretical and developmental perspectives on intercorporeality. Section 2 contains three chapters that provide insight on intercorporeality from evolutionary, historical, and cross-sectional perspectives. In Section 3, four chapters examine the intercorporeal nature of meaning-making during human interaction. Section 4 then presents three chapters that explore the intercorporeal nature of multi-agent interactions and the role that non-animate bodies (i.e., objects) play in such interaction. Throughout all the chapters, the authors work to integrate research in their specific discipline into the larger, transdisciplinary notion of intercorporeality. This collection provides an indisputably unique perspective on bodies-in-interaction, while simultaneously offering an interdisciplinary way forward in contemporary scholarship on bodies, meaning, and interaction. "--

Series Statement

Foundations of Human Interaction

Uniform Title

Foundations of human interaction

Subject

• Social interaction
• Social perception

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Fundamental intercorporeality -- Intercorporeality and interaffectivity -- Intercorporeality as a foundational dimension of human communication -- Feeling our way: enkinesthetic enquiry and immanent intercorporeality -- Haptic sociality: the embodied interactive constitution -- Part II. Extended intercorporeality -- Children's expressive handling of objects in a shared world -- The cultural organization of intercorporeality: interaction, emotion, and the senses among the Wolof of northwestern Senegal -- Taking the worldby hand: how (some) gestures mean -- Intercorporeality at the motor block: on the importance of a practical sense for social cooperation and coordination -- Intercorporeal phantasms: kineesthetic alignment with imagined bodies in self-defense training -- Part III. Intercorporeality beyond the body -- Sensible objects: intercorporeality and enactive knowing through things -- More than a body: a material engagement approach -- Challenges of conducting interaction with technologically mediated bodies -- Achieving intersubjectivity in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC): intercorporeal, embodied, and disembodied practices -- Wild meaning: the intercorporeal nature of objects, bodies, and words.

ISBN

• 9780190210465 (hardback)
• 019021046X (hardback)

LCCN

2017019130

OCLC

• on1001265697
• SCSB-8802085

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library