Body - Softcover

Johnson, Don Hanlon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556431449 ISBN 13: 9781556431449

Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

Body: Recovering Our Sensual Wisdom outlines a plan for reclaiming unity among our body movements, senses, and thought processes. It describes how we are pressured to mold ourselves to fit others' needs by attitudes fostered in religions, schools, the workplace, and the military. It gives special attention to how gender ideals shape us. Interweaving personal experiences, anatomical analyses, and the stories of men and women from various walks of life, the book explores how the mind/body split, concretized in our social institutions, coaxes us to distrust what our own senses tell us. In marked contrast to the individualistic aura of books in a similar vein, this book argues that individual awareness alone is not enough to correct the social scars left by mind-body dualisms. Real change can only come about when we join together to alter the shapes of our social body: schools, churches, political organizations, businesses, and health-care practices. Throughout the book, there are practical yet sensitive exercises offered for bringing about a reunion of abstract ideas and flesh, a recovery of our forgotten genius embedded in the cells of our bodies.

About this title

About the Author

Don Hanlon Johnson received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University. He is a professor of Somatics at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556431449
• ISBN 13: 9781556431449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 250