Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics - Paperback
Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics - Paperback
About this item
by Richard Shusterman (Author)
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 criticized 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.
Curated additions for your library
Alone with Nature: The Psychology of Environmental Attunement - Hardcover
The Flavor of Thinking: Philosophy in Artistic Research - Artistic Research in Philosophy - Paperback
Understanding Pictures - Paperback
Discourse Boundary Creation - Paperback
