Body Consciousness
A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10436221M
- ISBN-139780521675871
- ISBN-100521675871
- OCLC Control Number167505033
- OCLC Control Numberbodyconsciousnes00shus_849
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- Library of Congress Control Number2007034891
- Goodreads2289530
- LibraryThing5245453
Classifications
- LCCB105.B64 S568 2008
Description
"Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress. We are plagued by a growing variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these problems and enhance one's knowledge, performance, and pleasure. The body is our basic medium of perception and action, but focused attention to its feelings and movements has long been criticized as a damaging distraction that also ethically corrupts through self-absorption. In Body Consciousness, Richard Shusterman refutes such charges by engaging the most influential twentieth-century somatic philosophers and incorporating insights from both Western and Asian disciplines of body-mind awareness. Rather than rehashing intractable ontological debates on the mind-body relation, Shusterman reorients study of this crucial nexus toward a more fruitful, pragmatic direction that reinforces important but neglected connections between philosophy of mind, ethics, politics, and the pervasive aesthetic dimensions of everyday life."--Jacket.
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