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In his discussion of the concept of culture, Clifford Geertz, the famous anthropologist, refers to Susanne Langer’s “Grande Idée”—certain ideas that burst upon the intellectual landscape with a tremendous force, becoming the conceptual center-point around which a comprehensive system of analysis can be built, promising to resolve many fundamental problems at once (Geertz, 1973, p. 3). The concept of embodiment, I believe, is one such Grande Idée.
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Bresler, L. (2004). Prelude. In: Bresler, L. (eds) Knowing Bodies, Moving Minds. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2023-0_1
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