Description
Book Synopsisaeo Aims to create a new 'kinda of psychology, that of corporeal psychology. aeo Distinctive in its analysis of how bodies are used and how they are talked about. aeo Third part of a successful trilogy (following Social Being, 2nd edition, 1993, and Personal Being, 1983).
Trade Review"A masterly guided tour. Harre surveys a wonderful range of attitudes and aspects of experience, from hysteria to embarrassment, from earnest body-building to corporal punishment, from Kretschmerian body-types to sexual differences."
Times Literary Supplement "An intriguing and useful set of analyses"
Contemporary Psychology
Table of ContentsPart I: Metaphysics.1. Embodiment. 2. Body Kinds I: Categories and Characters.
3. Body Kinds II: Shapes and Temperaments.
4. The Experience of Embodiment I: Parts and States.
5. The Experience of Embodiment II: Feelings.
Part II: Evaluations.
6. Bodily Rights and Obligations.
7. Emotions of the Body.
8. Disease into Illness.
9. Body Cultivation.
10. The Body as a Locus of Social Control.
Part III: Meanings.
11. Corporeal Semantics.
12. Anthropographie.
Index.
