Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna’s writings

Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna’s writings

This article outlines some features of the discursive strategies adopted by Thomas Hanna in order to legitimate Somatics – as well as his own method – in the eyes of the scientific community. The notion of soma and the representations of its functions will be recognized at the core of this issue. In...

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Main Author: Margherita De
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2014-12-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Subjects:
Hanna
Somatics
Radical Epistemology
Soma-aesthetics
Scientific Discourse
Online Access:http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/47458/32510
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spelling doaj-79d0819d8dee4b9197ec5efb79108a902020-11-24T21:05:53ZengUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulRevista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença2237-26602014-12-01515484Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna’s writingsMargherita De0GiorgiThis article outlines some features of the discursive strategies adopted by Thomas Hanna in order to legitimate Somatics – as well as his own method – in the eyes of the scientific community. The notion of soma and the representations of its functions will be recognized at the core of this issue. In order to stress the enduring risk of dogmatism of the scientific rhetoric to our days, as well as their influence on the configuration of somatic discourses, I will be mainly referring to Isabelle Ginot’s radical epistemology and Martha Eddy’s critical perspective.http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/47458/32510HannaSomaticsRadical EpistemologySoma-aestheticsScientific Discourse
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Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna’s writings
Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Hanna
Somatics
Radical Epistemology
Soma-aesthetics
Scientific Discourse
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title Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna’s writings
title_short Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna’s writings
title_full Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna’s writings
title_fullStr Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna’s writings
title_full_unstemmed Shaping the Living Body: paradigms of soma and authority in Thomas Hanna’s writings
title_sort shaping the living body: paradigms of soma and authority in thomas hanna’s writings
publisher Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
series Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
issn 2237-2660
publishDate 2014-12-01
description This article outlines some features of the discursive strategies adopted by Thomas Hanna in order to legitimate Somatics – as well as his own method – in the eyes of the scientific community. The notion of soma and the representations of its functions will be recognized at the core of this issue. In order to stress the enduring risk of dogmatism of the scientific rhetoric to our days, as well as their influence on the configuration of somatic discourses, I will be mainly referring to Isabelle Ginot’s radical epistemology and Martha Eddy’s critical perspective.
topic Hanna
Somatics
Radical Epistemology
Soma-aesthetics
Scientific Discourse
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