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OverviewShows how our cultural misconceptions about the body distort its capacities and lead to personal and social ills. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Glen A. MazisPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780791454176ISBN 10: 0791454177 Pages: 281 Publication Date: 11 July 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Earthly Dance of Interconnection Moving Earth and Flowing Flesh Dancing versus Diabolical Logic Addicted to Self-Laceration Earthbody Sense Ceremonial Awareness 2. Earthbody Dimensions We Are Time Sensing Enters the Earth Eroticism Truly 3. Discordant Contemporary Rhythms Introduction: Detachment as a Curse upon the Land Ghouls: Our Love of Horror and Compulsion to Consume Vampires: Hunger for Experience and Fear of Intimacy Aesthetes: Obsession with Novelty and Control Who Has the Last Laugh? 4. Cyberspace: Rootedness versus Being in Orbit Introduction: A Different Kind of Materialism Cyberspace: A Material and Embodied Place in the World The Virtual Is the Heart of Reality Cyborg Life: Protean Selves versus Fragmented Selves Deep-rooted Emotion versus Cyberspace Sentimentality 5. Planetary Meaningfulness Introduction: The World Is Our ""Out of Body"" Body Animals and Humans as Part of the Same Dream Animals and Vitality, Morality, Spirituality, and Play Traditional Western Ethics as a Perverse Reaction to the Planet 6. Rejoining the Planet An Earthbody Ethics of Achieving Presence and Co-presence Patterns of Perversity in Flight from Pain Rhythm's Power, Changing Destructive Patterns, and Finding Place A Dynamic Sense of the Depth of Surfaces Responsibility, Reverberating Resonance, and Joy Afterword: A Poem Notes Index"ReviewsMazis takes readers on a thought-provoking foray against traditional forms of dualism or separation of the in-process embodied self from the world ... The approach is personal and thoughtful-an aesthetic description of a life that involves an implicit either/or dichotomy, bringing in aspects of art, religion, and philosophy in opposition to the traditional modernist characterization of human life. It is a rich tapestry describing a therapeutic transformation of bodily identity from separation to integration. - CHOICE Mazis's vision destroys the sickly detachment and alienation engendered by the psycho-physical dualism endemic in our culture-which includes scientism: the view, unsupportable by science, that only science can know. A number of his insights are absolutely novel and liberating, e.g., that the electronic 'virtual reality' of today is just an extension of who we are already-beings charged by potentiality, ideality, fiction. But, there's a horrifying danger in it-that we will become obsessed by virtual reality and tear to pieces our roots as ancient whole bodies in a whole earth. Marvelously, Mazis contrasts his 'dancing logic' and the traditional 'diabolical logic.' By the latter he means the systematic and by now-so-habitual-as-to-be-invisible denial of 'the palpable.'And what is that? The way the universe has evolved us by palpating our bodies: nursing, coaxing, stopping, molding, guiding, luring, regenerating us. The regenerating dancing of earthbodies in the embrace of the palpating earth must be ritualized to ever-regenerate us in a world in which our substance can deliquesce and dissipate without our knowing what's happening. - Bruce Wilshire, author of Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy This is how philosophy should be done: lyrical, full of care, thoughtful, modest in tone while ambitious in conception. A work that exemplifies that phenomenology can contribute to the cultural conversation. It ignores today's intellectual fashions and pretensions, and has real ideas that offer an antidote to our rushed civilization. - Robert Frodeman, editor of Earth Matters: The Earth Sciences, Philosophy, and the Claims of Community Author InformationGlen A. Mazis is Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Soka University and Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Penn State at Harrisburg. He is the author of Emotion and Embodiment: Fragile Ontology and The Trickster, Magician & Grieving Man: Reconnecting Men with Earth. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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