The Fiction of a Thinkable World: Body, Meaning, and the Culture of Capitalism

by Michael Steinberg

Overview

Discarding once and for all the discredited Cartesian dichotomy of mind and body, Steinberg considers the consequences of current research in neurology and cognitive science that show that people think with their bodies and in interaction with others. He considers the ways that the structures of daily experience in capitalist societies reinforce the fictions of the Western intellectual tradition and, as a remedy, he shows how our actions can be brought in accord with the world as it is. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781583671153
Publisher:	Monthly Review Press
Publication date:	04/01/2005
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Michael Steinberg’s writing has been published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, the American Choral Review, and many law reviews, and he was the author of the Web site “Why This War.” He lives in Rochester, NY.