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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Michael LevinPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138154131ISBN 10: 113815413 Pages: 402 Publication Date: 02 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction CHAPTER 1 The Bearing of Thought CHAPTER 2 The Living Body of Tradition CHAPTER 3 Moral Education—The Body’s Felt Sense of Value CHAPTER 4 The Body Politic CHAPTER 5 Taking the Measure in Stride CHAPTER 6 The Ground and its Poetizing CHAPTER 7 The Gathering Round-DanceReviews`David Levin is the contemporary spokesperson for the tradition going from Nietzsche to Husserl to Heidegger to Merleau-Ponty' - Don Hanlon Johnson Author InformationDAVID MICHAEL LEVIN Northwestern University, Illinois Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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