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Bodies of Thought: Embodiment, Identity and Modernity by Ian Burkitt (Paperback, 1999)

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ISBN-13: 9780803988491, 978-0803988491. Drawing on the work of contemporary social theorists and feminist writers, he argues that thought and the sense of being a person is inseparable from bodily practices within social relations, even though such active experience may be abstracted and expanded upon through the use of symbols.

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A theory of embodiment, which interprets modern individuals as complex bodies of thought, as embodied symbolic and material beings. Steering between constructionist and realist theories of the social actor, the work assesses Foucaultian, Eliasian, and feminist approaches to the body and provides a critique of post-Cartesian dualisms such as mind and body; thought and emotion; rationality and irrationality; and the mental and the material.