My big toe, rationality and reason.

Without needing to use a compass, the body offers a mode of cognition more intimate and internal than a now much scorned Enlightenment of rationality and reason

So  I know where my big toe is without going into the all chew and not bite of interiority. Bodies are ways of talking about human subjects without going all sloppily humanist, avoiding that messy interiority, of children of the Enlightenment ‘ rationality’ and ‘reason’

This is taken up by the later taken up by the later Wittgenstein, who once remarked that the body was the best image we had of the human soul

The body sprang first from a structuralist hostility to consciousness, and represents the 

the expulsion of the ghost (mind/soul/spiritt)in the machine

yet it It is not quite true that I have a body, and not quite true that I am one either. but in banishing the ghost from the machine, it risks dispelling subjectivity itself as no more than a humanist myth