Exploring the embodied basis of being through Merleau-Ponty and dance: a conversation between philosophy and practice

Merleau-Ponty suggests that a non-dualistic understanding of embodied being must start from a theory of embodied practice. This allows us to think in terms of a body-subject, rather than seeing the body as object, and thus to consider embodiment as the basis of subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Fu...

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Main Author: Purser, Aimie Christianne Elizabeth.
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13738/