Affective incorporation
Colombetti, Giovanna
Date: 20 October 2016
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Abstract
Classic and more recent phenomenological works provide rich accounts of our experience of
the body and of its relation to the world. In this chapter I pull out one thread from this
literature, focusing on the phenomenon of incorporation: literally, the capacity of the body to
take something else into itself. As we will see, to date ...
Classic and more recent phenomenological works provide rich accounts of our experience of
the body and of its relation to the world. In this chapter I pull out one thread from this
literature, focusing on the phenomenon of incorporation: literally, the capacity of the body to
take something else into itself. As we will see, to date this phenomenon has been discussed
primarily, if not exclusively, in relation to our sensorimotor capacities. The aim of this
chapter is to show that not just the sensorimotor body (the perceiving and moving body) but
the affective body too is subject to the process of incorporation.
Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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