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Body Consciousness

A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics

  • Paperback
  • 258 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

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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.
Body Consciousness and Practicing Philosophy
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  • Author

    Richard Shusterman

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 2008

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    258

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521675871

  • ISBN-10

    0521675871

  • Eden Code

    4575357

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