Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality by Gail Weiss

The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages (Current Studies in Linguistics Book 46)

Within the limitations of Babel, Andrea Moro tells the tale of an stumble upon among cultures: modern theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. The research of language inside a organic context has been ongoing for greater than fifty years. the improvement of neuroimaging know-how bargains new possibilities to complement the "biolinguistic standpoint" and expand it past an summary framework for inquiry.

The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

Fromm’s simple suggestion used to be to examine the person as a social being and to examine society as an ensemble of a lot of people who've not just universal rules and convictions according to a typical perform of lifestyles but additionally a standard psychic constitution. along with his thought of “social personality” he created a brand new interdisciplinary considering awarded during this reader.

On Chinese Culture

This publication is split into 3 major components: an advent to theories of tradition, a bit on chinese language tradition, and one on cultural development. the 1st half might be interpreted as an try and discover the meta-theoretical method of tradition on the philosophical point. in keeping with the concept that of “culture as methods of living,” the e-book additional defines “culture” as “the practise of people,” together with the tactics during which humans adapt to neighborhood cultural and social customs.

Foucault and the Government of Disability (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)

Foucault and the govt. of incapacity is the 1st book-length research of the relevance and significance of the tips of Michel Foucault to the sector of incapacity studies-and vice versa. over the past thirty years, politicized conceptions of incapacity have induced major social swap, together with the landmark americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, the remodel of city landscapes, the looks of closed-captioning on televisions, and the starting to be attractiveness that disabled humans represent a marginalized and disenfranchised constituency.