Bodies of Thought

Ian Burkitt is in the Department of Social and Economic Studies, University of Bradford

Introduction Prolegomenon to Bodies of Thought The Ecology of Bodies of Thought The Body as Object From the Grotesque to the Closed Body The Thinking Body Feminism and the Challenge to Dualism Social Relations, Embodiment and Emotions Modernity, Self and Embodiment Conclusion Relations and the Embodied Person

`The work develops and articulates a brilliant and original central thesis; namely that modern individuals are best understood as complex bodies of thought, as embodied symbolic and material beings. Future work on mind, self, body, society and culture will have to begin with Burkitt's text' - Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois `After his excellent Social Selves, Ian Burkitt has produced a new theory of embodiment which will become required reading for those working in the areas of social theory, sociology, cultural studies and social psychology. Steering between constructionist and realist theories of the social actor, Bodies of Thought provides an innovative assessment of Foucaultian, Eliasian, and feminist approaches to the body and a sustained critique of Cartesian notions of the subject' - Chris Shilling, University of Portsmouth