The Notebooks of Simone Weil
by Simone Weil | 
A Thousand Plateaus
by Gilles Deleuze | 
Karma Yoga
by Swami Vivekananda | 
The Philosophy Book
by Will Buckingham | 
Understanding Media
by Marshall McLuhan | 
Nature, Man and Woman
by Alan Watts | 
Practical Ethics
by Peter Singer | 
Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
by Manly P. Hall | 
Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity
by Iain D. Thomson | 
On Love and Loneliness
by Jiddu Krishnamurti | 
Real Essentialism
by David S. Oderberg | 
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
by Richard Rorty | 
Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies
by Raymond Smullyan |
Reflections on the Human Condition
by Eric Hoffer | 
Improvement of the Understanding
by Baruch Spinoza | 
Outside Ethics
by Raymond Geuss | 
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
by Christopher Grau | 
The Love of Wisdom
by Steven B. Cowan | 
The Visible and the Invisible
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty | 
Eastern Philosophy
by Mel Thompson |
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.