Being a (Lived) Body

ISBN-13: 9781032404639 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Tonino Griffero

Opis

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called 'lived body' or ‘felt body’ (Leib) and the 'physical body' (Körper), tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thought.

Spis treści

Foreword

Chapter. 1: What is this thing called lived body?

Chapter 2: The phenomenological dilemma: “being” or “having” a body

Chapter 3: The self-affection of the invisible-pathic body

Conclusion (to be continued…)

Bibliography

O autorze

Tonino Griffero is full Professor of Aesthetics at the Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy. In the past decade, he has authored “Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces” (Routledge), “Quasi-Things: The Paradigm of Atmospheres”, “Places, Affordances, Atmospheres: A Pathic Aesthetics” (Routledge), and “The Atmospheric 'We': Moods and Collective Feelings”.