The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism

by Elizabeth Grosz

Book Overview

Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism--either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materialists, another view has acknowledged that no forms of materialism can be completely self-inclusive--space, time, the void, and sense are the incorporeal conditions of all that is corporeal or material...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231181620
• ISBN13: 9780231181624
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher