Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and SomaestheticsContemporary 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. |
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| العنوان | Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics |
| المؤلف | Richard Shusterman |
| الناشر | Cambridge University Press, 2008 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 1139467778, 9781139467773 |
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