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Integrated Bodies

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What are we talking about when we mention “the body”? Some people might think this question does not require an answer. Our experiences of the body are so common and spontaneous that we might think it unnecessary to explain it or limit it by defining it. Nevertheless – should we attempt to do so – we might be faced with a truly difficult task. What is the body? Is it “an experience” (of the body, of course) or a “vehicle for experience”? Is it “object” or “subject”? And if so, of what? Is it “energy mass” or “matter”? Is it a “biological device”?

The history of bodies offers its readers a journey, the advantages of a minor interest story in addition. The body explains and gives substance to a long story. To this long detailed story full of ideas, attitudes, institutions, of economic rules even, is given a body, a substance.

Jacques Le Goff, The Medieval Body

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    Elena Faccio

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Faccio, E. (2013). Integrated Bodies. In: The Corporeal Identity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5680-3_1

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