Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521675871)

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.

Author: Richard Shusterman
ISBN-10: 0521675871
ISBN-13: 9780521675871
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2008
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d