Skip to main content alibris logo

Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature

by

Write The First Customer Review
Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature - Waldow, Anik
Filter Results
Shipping
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

By investigating conceptions of experience from Descartes to Kant, this book shows that one of the central questions of the early-modern period was how humans can instantiate in their actions the principles of rational moral agency, while at the same time responding with their bodies to the causal play of nature. Through the analysis of this question, the book draws attention to the bodily underpinnings of the ability to experience thoughts and feelings. It thus challenges overly subjectivist interpretations that ...

loading
Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature 2020, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190086114

Hardcover