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.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
2008 |
| First published: |
2008 |
| Authors: |
Richard Shusterman
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
258 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-67587-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-521-67587-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780521675871 |
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