Giving the Body Its Due Geophysics

Giving the Body Its Due GeophysicsThese essays bring together disciplinary understandings of what it is to be the bodies we are. In its own way, each essay calls into question certain culturally embedded ways of valuing the body which deride or ignore its role in making us human. These ways have remained virtually unchanged since Descartes in the seventeenth century first sharply divided mind a thinking substance, from the body an extended substance. The legacy of this Cartesian

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this book shows the powerful influence of the courts in determining the shape and operation of our politics

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