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III - Thinking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2023

Erik Ringmar
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Ibn Haldun University, Turkey
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Thinking as a way of coping with the situations in which we find ourselves. Internal dialogue and gestures. Situations calling for thought. Thinking and rational deliberation. Actions and plans for actions as having entirely different ontological status. In the seventeenth century the mechanical worldview separated bodies from minds, and thinking thereby became a disembodied process. The body was instead equated with “the passions.” As a result, movements such as the ballet came to be regarded only as aesthetic objects. Eighteenth-century theories of the origin of language buttressed this claim. The ridiculousness of ballets d’action. Ballet dancers now became sex workers, and the theater became a location where rational, disembodied, human beings keep their emotions.

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Moving Bodies
Embodied Minds and the World That We Made
, pp. 54 - 79
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Thinking
  • Erik Ringmar, Ibn Haldun University, Turkey
  • Book: Moving Bodies
  • Online publication: 12 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245661.003
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  • Thinking
  • Erik Ringmar, Ibn Haldun University, Turkey
  • Book: Moving Bodies
  • Online publication: 12 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245661.003
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  • Thinking
  • Erik Ringmar, Ibn Haldun University, Turkey
  • Book: Moving Bodies
  • Online publication: 12 January 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245661.003
Available formats
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