Research Catalog

Title

Physical being : a theory for a corporeal psychology / Rom Harré.

Author

Harré, Rom.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell, 1991.

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Details

Description

viii, 265 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Body care has never before been so much a focus of public interest, nor have the ways we classify people by reference to their kind of body excited such political passions. What bodies we have and how we use them is a central concern in the art of being human. In this book, Rom Harre attempts to build a comprehensive account of the roles our bodies play in our lives. He argues that these roles are determined less by organic functioning than by cultural conventions and social meanings and that, rightly or wrongly, our type of body is fateful for the way our lives can be lived. From among the vast array of ways our bodies and their nature and condition enter our lives he explores three main questions. The first concerns the "metaphysical": how we use our bodies to determine and to express the kind of person we are. Next, the various forms of normative judgements and public and private "evaluations" that bodily forms and functions are subjected to are examined. Finally, the body and its parts and functions are looked at in the light of their use both as signifiers, systems of signs, and as blank surfaces on which significance is "inscribed."

Series Statement

• Ways of being
• Harré, Rom. Ways of being

Subject

• Mind and body
• Human body (Philosophy)
• Identification (Psychology)
• Philosophy
• Self-perception
• Body Image
• Identification, Psychological
• Philosophy
• Self Concept
• philosophy
• Self-perception
• Mind and body
• Körper
• Leib-Seele-Problem
• Leiblichkeit
• Psychologie
• Lichaam en geest
• Corpo humano (psicologia)
• Mente (psicologia)

Note

• Errata slip inserted.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Embodiment -- Body-kinds I: categories and characters -- Body-kinds II: shapes and temperaments -- The experience of embodiment I: parts and states -- The experience of embodiment II: feelings -- Bodily rights and obligations -- Emotions of the body -- Disease into illness -- Body cultivation -- The body as a locus osf social control -- Corporeal semantics -- Anthropographie.

ISBN

• 0631134212
• 9780631134213
• 063119505X
• 9780631195054

LCCN

90020581

OCLC

• ocm22593008
• 22593008
• SCSB-1928220

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library