Mapping the body: major conceptions of human embodiment from the West

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buir.advisorMutman, Mahmut
dc.contributor.authorAyaş, Ahmet Murat
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T20:15:33Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T20:15:33Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.departmentDepartment of Graphic Designen_US
dc.descriptionAnkara : Department of Graphic Design and the Institute of Fine Arts of Bilkent Univ., 1998.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1998.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references leaves 129-132.en_US
dc.description.abstractWithin the humanistic and social sciences of the western world, the human body, the state of being embodied, and the indelible interrelatedness of mind and the body have long been neglected in favour of the mind that is supposedly self-contained. The major reasons for that are claimed to be the philosophy of Cartesianism and mainstream Structuralism that foster the hegemony of dichotomous thought, which asserts that mind and the body are clearly distinct. Deconstructionist tools, however, have shown the impossibility of such an unequivocal distinction as well as pure totality and isolated presence. The main theme of this study is to map the major western conceptions that either implicitly or explicitly have developed notions of the body and embodiment which are in various fashions away from the constraints which have opposed the body to mind or which have considered the body as a closed, universal, nonhistorical biological entity. The notions that are developed in that way have the capacity to show that the body, as much as the psyche and the subject, is both cultural and historical product bearing peculiar natural qualities that position it as both an object and subject with powers of being affected and to affect others. The study concludes with a discussion on the significance and importance of the need to develop an adequate understanding of the body that eventually would enrich the ethical and political actions as well as the approach to art, design and architecture.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.F.A.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityAyaş, Ahmet Muraten_US
dc.format.extentvi, 132 leavesen_US
dc.identifier.itemidBILKUTUPB042434
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/18030
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectBodyen_US
dc.subjectEmbodimenten_US
dc.subjectDichotomyen_US
dc.subjectDeconstructionen_US
dc.subjectWestern Philosophyen_US
dc.subject.lccN7625.5 .A93 1998en_US
dc.subject.lcshHuman beings in art.en_US
dc.subject.lcshHuman figure in art.en_US
dc.subject.lcshArt, Modern.en_US
dc.subject.lcshArt--Philosophy.en_US
dc.subject.lcshVisual arts.en_US
dc.titleMapping the body: major conceptions of human embodiment from the Westen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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