{"product_id":"physical-being-isbn-9780631195054","title":"Physical Being","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. This study is an attempt to build a comprehensive account of the roles our bodies play in our lives. Through a series of discussions Rome harre concludes that the roles the body plays in our lives are determined less by organic functioning than by cultural conventions and social meanings.  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Metaphysics.1. Embodiment.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Body Kinds I: Categories and Characters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Body Kinds II: Shapes and Temperaments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Experience of Embodiment I: Parts and States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Experience of Embodiment II: Feelings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Evaluations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Bodily Rights and Obligations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Emotions of the Body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Disease into Illness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Body Cultivation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Body as a Locus of Social Control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Meanings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Corporeal Semantics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Anthropographie.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"A masterly guided tour. Harre surveys a wonderful range of attitudes and aspects of experience, from hysteria to embarrassment, from earnest body-building to corporal punishment, from Kretschmerian body-types to sexual differences.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An intriguing and useful set of analyses\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eContemporary Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rom Harre's numerous publications include \u003ci\u003e The Explanation of Social Behaviour \u003c\/i\u003e (with Paul Secord), \u003ci\u003e Social Being, Personal Being, Varieties of Realism \u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, \u003ci\u003e Pronouns and People \u003c\/i\u003e with Peter Muhlhausler, also available from Blackwell Publishers. 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, now available in paperback, 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 \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e metaphysical: \u003cd\u003e\u003c\/d\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e evaluations \u003cd\u003e\u003c\/d\u003e 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'. Physical Being \u003cd\u003e\u003c\/d\u003e concludes Rom Harre's trilogy concerning the ways of being human, and is a fascinating study of the norms and principles of body uses.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989787328741,"sku":"NP9780631195054","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631195054.jpg?v=1761785465","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/physical-being-isbn-9780631195054","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}