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14 octobre 2007

Body Consciousness

Body Consciousness
A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
Shusterman, Richard
2007, , Kt, (CUP)
Bestell-Nr. 145159
25,50 EUR

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.

Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Somasethetics and care of the self: the case of Foucault; 2. The silent, limping body of philosophy: somatic attention defecit in Merleau-Ponty; 3. Somatic subjectives and somatic subjugation: Beauvoir on gender and ageing; 4. Wittgenstein on bodily feelings: explanation and melioration in philosophy of mind, art, and politics; 5. Deeper into the storm center: the somatic philosophy of William James; 6. Redeeming somatic reflection: John Dewey's philosophy of body-mind.
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