What is it about?
I argue that Mary Shelley considered imagination to be embodied, but not in the way that embodied cognition would suggest. Where theories of embodied cognition are interested only in what goes right, Mary Shelly is worried about how embodiment goes wrong.
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Why is it important?
I think through the plusses and minuses of embodied cognition. I ask for whom is it a resource, and for whom a barrier.
Perspectives
Does "embodied cognition" solve many problems within cognition? I argue many of the conclusions are too optimistic and take very specific examples of embodiment and overgeneralize from there.
Professor Richard C. Sha
American University, DC
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This page is a summary of: Frankenstein’s Embodied Imagination: Or, the Limits of Embodied Cognition, January 2021, Bloomsbury Academic,
DOI: 10.5040/9781501360824.ch-003.
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