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Body Consciousness

By Richard Shusterman

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Body Consciousness

By Richard Shusterman

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Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a 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 criticised 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 towards 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2008-03-06
Publication Date:
2008-01-01
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0521675871
ISBN13:
9780521675871
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
424 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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