Body consciousness : a philosophy of mindfulness and somaesthetics /

Body consciousness : a philosophy of mindfulness and somaesthetics /

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Author / Creator:	Shusterman, Richard.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 239 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Human body (Philosophy) Aesthetics -- Physiological aspects. Body Image. Esthetics. Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical. Aesthetics -- Physiological aspects. Human body (Philosophy)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11831285

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ISBN:	9780511802829 051180282X 0511393970 9780511393976 9780511394621 0511394624 9780521858908 0521858909 9780521675871 0521675871
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress. We are plagued by a growing 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. Rather than rehashing intractable ontological debates on the mind-body relation, Shusterman reorients study of this crucial nexus toward 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."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Shusterman, Richard. Body consciousness. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521858908

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xv, 239 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
ISBN:	9780511802829 051180282X 0511393970 9780511393976 9780511394621 0511394624 9780521858908 0521858909 9780521675871 0521675871