The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity [Paperback]

The 17 original essays of this volume explore the relevance of the phenomenological approach to contemporary debates concerning the role of embodiment in our cognitive, emotional and practical life. The papers demonstrate the theoretical vitality and critical potential of the phenomenological tradition both through critically engagement with other disciplines (medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, the cognitive sciences) and through the articulation of novel interpretations of classical works in the tradition, in particular the works of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre. The concrete phenomena analyzed in this book include: chronic pain,?anorexia, melancholia and depression.?

With a wealth of original research on the relevance of classical phenomenology to medicine, psychopathology, and the cognitive sciences, this volume includes a critique of Merleau-Pontys work on mind-body dualism and new perspectives on Husserls later works.

Editors Introduction, R.T. Jensen & D. Moran.- Part I: The Acting Body: Habit, Freedom and Imagination.-1. Habit and Attention, K. Romdenh-Romluc.- 2. Affordances and Unreflective Freedom, E. Rietveld.- 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Transcendental Problem concerning Bodily Agency, R.T. Jensen.- 4. Imagination, Embodiment and Situatedness: Using Husserl to Dispel (Some) Notions of Off-Line Thinking, J. Jansen.- Part II: : The Body in Perception: Normality and the Constitution of Life-World.- 5. Transcendental Intersubjectivity and Normality: Constitution by Mortals, S. Hein?maa.- 6. The Body as a System of Concordance and the Perceptual World, I. de los Reyes Melero.- 7. Life-world as an Embodiment of Spiritual Meaning:? The Constitutive Dynamics of Activity and Passivity in Husserl, S. Pulkkinen.- 8. Intersubjectivity, Interculturality, and Realities in Husserl Research Manuscripts on the Life-world (Hua XXXIX), T. Nenon.- ls8