Mazis Earthbodies

Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8838-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Shows how our cultural misconceptions about the body distort its capacities and lead to personal and social ills.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mazis, Glen A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Glen 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.