The body’s civilisation/decivilisation: emotional, social, and historical tensions.

In this article, I discuss the paradoxes of the body’s civilising processes in dialogue with Norbert Elias’s sociological theory. As a premise, I contend that modernity’s civilising rationality has taken the body, the senses, and emotions in such a fragmented manner that we sometimes lose sight of t...

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Publicado en:Paedagogica Historica Vol. 54; no. 1/2; pp. 20 - 32
Autor principal: Veiga, Cynthia
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb-Apr2018
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