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- catalog abstract "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".".
- catalog contributor b3210498.
- catalog created "1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
- catalog description "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".".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "Part 1. Metaphysics. 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 -- Part II. Evaluations. Bodily rights and obligations -- Emotions of the body -- Disease into illness -- Body cultivation -- The body as a locus of social control -- Part III. Meanings. Corporeal semantics -- Anthropographie.".
- catalog extent "viii, 265 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0631134212 :".
- catalog identifier "9780631134213".
- catalog isPartOf "Harré, Rom. Ways of being.".
- catalog isPartOf "Ways of being".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell,".
- catalog subject "150.19/8 20".
- catalog subject "BF 161 H296p 1991".
- catalog subject "BF161 .H28 1991".
- catalog subject "Body Image.".
- catalog subject "Human body (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "Identification (Psychology)".
- catalog subject "Mind and body.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Self Concept.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part 1. Metaphysics. 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 -- Part II. Evaluations. Bodily rights and obligations -- Emotions of the body -- Disease into illness -- Body cultivation -- The body as a locus of social control -- Part III. Meanings. Corporeal semantics -- Anthropographie.".
- catalog title "Physical being : a theory for a corporeal psychology / Rom Harré.".
- catalog type "text".