Review: Embodiment: A History

Embodiment: A History by Justin E.H. Smith
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

'Embodiment, A History' is a new addition to the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series. In common with other members of the series, this book offers a multidisciplinary and historical study of its subject, the problem of embodiment. The book offers a useful survey of the various problems that embodiment is thought to engender and reviews various solutions that have been offered as responses. The close attention to historical context and the willingness to look beyond the philosophical canon and to a wider intellectual landscape are useful and commendable features of the various articles that make up this book. That said, the book would have benefitted from a closer engagement with South Asian and Middle Eastern philosophical contributions to the problem of embodiment; a more comparative approach to the articles would have also been desirable.

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