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The self and its body in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit

by John Edward Russon · 1997

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A major criticism of Hegel's philosophy is that it fails to comprehend the experience of the body. In this book, John Russon shows that there is in fact a philosophy of embodiment implicit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Russon argues that Hegel has not only taken account of the body, but has done so in a way that integrates both modern work on embodiment and the approach to the body found in ancient Greek philosophy.

Self (Philosophy)Body, Human (Philosophy)Human body (Philosophy)Hegel, georg wilhelm friedrich, 1770-1831