Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body | Aeon Essays
We in the West are used to thinking of the mind and the body as separate. But a burgeoning field called “embodied cognition” is demonstrating that thinking is actually a full-body experience.
Annie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Descartes formulated what became the foundation of the modern world: Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. But what happened to the body in that sentence? What happened to the heart, the breath, the pulse?
Anna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
H.D. would devote her life to undoing the damage Descartes has done to our cultural mythos, insisting instead on the synthesis of body and mind, of spirituality and sexuality, of love and reason