Radical Embodiment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556355783)

"Radical embodiment" refers to an anthropology and an epistemology fundamentally rooted in our bodies as always in correlation with our natural and social worlds. All human rationality, meaning, and value arise not only instrumentally but also substantively from this embodiment in the world. Radical embodiment reacts against Enlightenment mind-body dualism, as well as its monistic offshoots, including the physicalism that reduces everything to component matter-energy at the expense of subjectivity and meaning. It also rejects against certain forms of postmodernism that reinscribe modern dualisms. David H. Nikkel develops the perspective of "radical embodiment" by examining varieties of modern and postmodern theology, and the nature and role of tradition-in terms of linguistic and non-linguistic experience, the religion and science dialogue on the nature of consciousness, and the immanent and transcendent aspects of God.

Author: David H. Nikkel
ISBN-10: 1556355785
ISBN-13: 9781556355783
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d