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- An innovative new book focusing specifically on political philosophy of mind
- Asks how do social institutions in contemporary neoliberal democratic state systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency
- Builds on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind
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Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency. Human beings are, necessarily, social animals who create and belong to social institutions. But social institutions take on a life of their own, and literally shape the minds of all those who belong to them, for better or worse, usually without their being self-consciously aware of it. Indeed, in contemporary neoliberal societies, it is generally for the worse. In The Mind-Body Politic, Michelle Maiese and Robert Hanna work out a new critique of contemporary social institutions by deploying the special standpoint of the philosophy of mind—in particular, the special standpoint of the philosophy of what they call essentially embodied minds—and make a set of concrete, positive proposals for radically changing both these social institutions and also our essentially embodied lives for the better.
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Reviews
“The Mind–Body Politic is a book about the pervasiveness of neoliberal, capitalist ideology and the harmful ways in which we are affected by it, even outside of our own awareness. ... The Mind–Body Politic is a philosophical essay that at times reads more as a call to arms. ... most of the time, theoretically sound and argumentatively strong. ... it will undoubtedly be illuminating at least to the politically involved philosopher of mind … . ” (Josephine Pascoe, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 23 (1), 2024)
“The book is not only an exposition of political discourse but concurrently an analysis of form, a rich and ambitious undertaking.” (Isobel Armstrong, Modern Philology, Vol. 117 (1), May, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Michelle Maiese is Professor of Philosophy at Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of Embodiment, Emotion, and Cognition (2011), Embodied Selves and Embodied Minds (2015), and many articles on topics in philosophy of mind and psychiatry.
Robert Hanna is an independent philosopher who has held research or teaching positions at universities in Brazil, Canada, Luxembourg, the UK, and the USA. He is a philosophical generalist and the author or co-author of eleven books, including Rationality and Logic (2006), Embodied Minds in Action (co-authored with Michelle Maiese, 2009) and the five-volume book series, The Rational Human Condition (2015-2018).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Mind-Body Politic
Authors: Michelle Maiese, Robert Hanna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19546-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19545-8Published: 15 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19548-9Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19546-5Published: 28 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 320
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy