By Ben Spatz
In?What a physique Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the 1st time, a rigorous conception of embodied procedure as wisdom. He argues that viewing procedure as both?training and study has a lot to supply present debates over the position of perform in the?university, together with the debates round "practice as research."?
Drawing on severe views from the sociology of knowledge,?phenomenology, dance reviews, enactive cognition, and different parts, Spatz argues that approach is an incredible zone of ancient and ongoing learn in actual tradition, appearing arts, and daily life.
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