Stock's “Mind, Bodies, and Readers”
An interesting notion that Stock relates in this article is the presuppositions that people possess related to a field. In his work relating to medicine with regard to the mind and the body, Stock relates how dualistic Western society has become. He argues that we've been viewing medical science as dealing with the body, while religion and philosophy relates to the mind. It was not so in ancient civilizations. I enjoyed this piece because it challenged me to view reading differently as well. Do we as a society view reading with lenses that limit our capacity to engage fully? Stock would argue that we do. Our limitations are on the presuppositions we possess. If we embrace a holistic sense of readership—community within ourselves and without—we will experience a transcendental existence!
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