Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality - Hardcover

This text presents a wide-ranging discussion of the body image by looking at the individual's immediate apprehension toward his or her body and bodily capabilities. In a philosophical treatment of the role played by the body image in our everyday experience, Gail Weiss returns to the seminal contributions of the phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty and the psychoanalyst Paul Schilder, which reveal the complex physiological, social and physical structure of the body image.

Gail Weiss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. She is co-editor of Perspectives on Embodiment (forthcoming from Routledge).