Radical Embodiment

ISBN: 0227173538

Author: Nikkel, David H.

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"Radical embodiment" refers to an anthropology and an epistemology fundamentally rooted in our bodies as always in correlation with our natural and social worlds. All human rationality, meaning, and value arise not only instrumentally but also substantively from this embodiment in the world. Radical embodiment reacts against Enlightenment mind-body dualism, as well as its monistic offshoots, including the physicalism that reduces everything to component matter-energy at the expense of subjectivity and meaning. It also rejects certain forms of postmodernism that reinscribe modern dualisms. David H. Nikkel develops the perspective of "radical embodiment" by examining varieties of modern and postmodern theology, and the nature and role of tradition-in terms of linguistic and non-linguistic experience, the religion and science dialogue on the nature of consciousness, and the immanent and transcendent aspects of God.Table of ContentsPreface; Discerning the Spirits of Modernity and Postmodernity; Postmodernism(s) and Tradition; The Body in Tradition; Tradition as Body; Radical Embodiment in Light of the Science and Religion Dialogue; The Postmodern Spirit and the Status of God; Radical Embodiment and Transcendence; Bibliography; Index.