Body Consciousness : A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics

Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, overstimulation, and stress. We are further plagued by a growing variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can help relieve these problems...

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Tác giả chính: Shusterman, Richard
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Được phát hành: Cambridge University Press 2013
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-354512014-01-19T23:53:22Z Body Consciousness : A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics Shusterman, Richard Philosophy Mindfulness Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, overstimulation, and stress. We are further plagued by a growing variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can help relieve these problems and enhance one’s knowledge, performance, and pleasure. If body consciousness is a topic unlikely to comfort conventional philosophical tastes, this is not because philosophy has always ignored the body, as too many somatic advocates are fond of complaining. The body in fact exerts a very powerful (though generally negative) presence in philosophy’s persistent privileging of mind and spirit. Its dominantly negative image – as a prison, distraction, source of error and corruption – is both reflected and reinforced by the idealistic bias and disregard for somatic cultivation that Western philosophers generally display. 2013-09-06T07:56:29Z 2013-09-06T07:56:29Z 2008 Book 13 978-0-511-39314-3 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35451 en application/pdf Cambridge University Press
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Mindfulness
Shusterman, Richard
Body Consciousness : A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
description Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, overstimulation, and stress. We are further plagued by a growing variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can help relieve these problems and enhance one’s knowledge, performance, and pleasure. If body consciousness is a topic unlikely to comfort conventional philosophical tastes, this is not because philosophy has always ignored the body, as too many somatic advocates are fond of complaining. The body in fact exerts a very powerful (though generally negative) presence in philosophy’s persistent privileging of mind and spirit. Its dominantly negative image – as a prison, distraction, source of error and corruption – is both reflected and reinforced by the idealistic bias and disregard for somatic cultivation that Western philosophers generally display.
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