The Body's Recollection of Being

The Body's Recollection of Being
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 293
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781135795085
ISBN-13 : 1135795088
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Body's Recollection of Being by : David Michael Levin

Download or read book The Body's Recollection of Being written by David Michael Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique study, contuining the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the prevailing nihilism of our culture. It expands our understanding of the human potential for spiritual self-realization by interpreting it as the developing of a bodily-felt awareness informing our gestures and movements. The author argues that a psychological focus on our experience of well-being and pathology as embodied beings contributes significantly to a historically relevant critique of ideology. It also provides an essential touchstone in experience for a fruitful individual and collective response to the danger of nihilism. Dr Levin draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to clarify Heidegger's analytic of human beings through an interpretation that focuses on our experience of being embodied. He reconstructs in modern terms the wisdom implicit in western and semitic forms of religion and philosophy, considering the work of Freud, Jung, Focault and Neitzsche, as well as that of American educational philosophers, including Dewey. In particular, he draws on the psychology of Freud and Jung to clarify our historical experience of gesture and movement and to bring to light its potential in the fulfilment of Selfhood. Throughout the book, the pathologies of the ego and its journey into Selfhood are considered in relation to the conditons of technology and the powers of nihilism.


The Body's Recollection of Being Related Books

The Body's Recollection of Being
Language: en
Pages: 406
Authors: David Michael Levin
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-04 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is a unique study, contuining the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the prevailing nihilism of our cul
The Body's Recollection of Being
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: David Michael Levin
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-04 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is a unique study, contuining the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the prevailing nihilism of our cul
The Memory of Bones
Language: en
Pages: 758
Authors: Stephen D. Houston
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions. All of human experience flo
Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement
Language: en
Pages: 478
Authors: Sabine C. Koch
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-25 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one
The Body Keeps the Score
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-08 - Publisher: Penguin Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.