the clever body.

Csepregi, Gabor:

ISBN 10: 1552382087 / ISBN 13: 9781552382080

Published by Calgary, University of Calgary Press., 2006

About this Item

23 cm, X, 198 pages, kartoniert. wenig gebraucht, Widmung und Signatur des Verfassers auf Schmutztitel, sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch.

Seller Inventory # 36416AB

Bibliographic Details

• Title: the clever body.
• Publisher: Calgary, University of Calgary Press.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552382087
• ISBN 13: 9781552382080
• Binding: Soft cover
• Weight: 330 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophie

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Synopsis

In Western civilization, we have come to regard the body as an instrument or a machine that responds to external challenges but does not have a life or creativity of its own. Thanks to some of its inherent capabilities, however, the living body can act in a highly intelligent and creative manner.

All of us have noticed from time to time that our body can move naturally, without any conscious effort; it can adapt to new situational demands and propose unexpected solutions. While skiing or rock climbing or sailing, we may have abandoned ourselves to our bodily timing and responsiveness, our acute feeling for new solutions.

In The Clever Body, Gabor Csepregi describes in detail the nature and scope of these innate abilities sensibility, spontaneity, mimetic faculty, sense of rhythm, memory, and imagination and reflects on their significance in human life.

About the Author

Gabor Csepregi is the President of the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology in Ottawa. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Science et Espritand has published over fifty articles, reviews, and essays on philosophy, music, and sport.