1st Edition
The Body's Recollection of Being Phenomenological Psychology and the Deconstruction of Nihilism
By David Michael Levin
Copyright 1985
402 Pages
by
Routledge
402 Pages
by
Routledge
402 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction 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-Dance
Biography
DAVID MICHAEL LEVIN Northwestern University, Illinois
`David Levin is the contemporary spokesperson for the tradition going from Nietzsche to Husserl to Heidegger to Merleau-Ponty' - Don Hanlon Johnson
