The Healing Body: Creative Responses to Illness, Aging, and Affliction - Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy - Drew Leder - Books - Northwestern University Press - 9780810146372 - October 15, 2023
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The Healing Body: Creative Responses to Illness, Aging, and Affliction - Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy


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Philosopher and medical doctor Drew Leder shows how the phenomenology of lived embodiment makes available a variety of existential healing responses to bodily breakdown. Leder also turns to socially marginalized groups - the incarcerated and the elderly - to explore how individuals creatively cope with societal as well as physical challenges.


240 pages, 2 b&w images

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 15, 2023
ISBN13 9780810146372
Publishers Northwestern University Press
Pages 240
Dimensions 229 × 153 × 20 mm   ·   352 g
Language English  

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