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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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35451 |
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| Tóm tắt: | 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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