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Body consciousness : a philosophy of mindfulness and somaesthetics /

"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 enhanc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shusterman, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Somasethetics and care of the self: the case of Foucault
  • The silent, limping body of philosophy: somatic attention defecit in Merleau-Ponty
  • Somatic subjectives and somatic subjugation: Beauvoir on gender and ageing
  • Wittgenstein's somaesthetics: explanation and melioration in philosophy of mind, art, and politics
  • Deeper into the storm center: the somatic philosophy of William James
  • Redeeming somatic reflection: John Dewey's philosophy of body-mind.