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The Mind-Body Politic

The Mind-Body Politic

Maiese, Michelle
Hanna, Robert

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 3030195481
ISBN13: 9783030195489
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 15 2020
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency. Human beings are, necessarily, social animals who create and belong to social institutions. But social institutions take on a life of their own, and literally shape the minds of all those who belong to them, for better or worse, usually without their being self-consciously aware of it. Indeed, in contemporary neoliberal societies, it is generally for the worse. In The Mind-Body Politic, Michelle Maiese and Robert Hanna work out a new critique of contemporary social institutions by deploying the special standpoint of the philosophy of mind--in particular, the special standpoint of the philosophy of what they call essentially embodied minds--and make a set of concrete, positive proposals for radically changing both these social institutions and also our essentially embodied lives for the better.

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