{"product_id":"the-bodys-recollection-of-being","title":"The Body's Recollection of Being","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 our experience of well-being and pathology as embodied beings contributes significantly to a historically relevant critique of ideology. It also provides an essential touchstone in experience for a fruitful individual and collective response to the danger of nihilism. Dr Levin draws on Merleau-Pontys phenomenology to clarify Heideggers analytic of human beings through an interpretation that focuses on our experience of being embodied. He reconstructs in modern terms the wisdom implicit in western and semitic forms of religion and philosophy  considering the work of Freud  Jung  Focault and Neitzsche  as well as that of American educational philosophers  including Dewey. In particular  he draws on the psychology of Freud and Jung to clarify our historical experience of gesture and movement and to bring to light its potential in the fulfilment of Selfhood. Throughout the book  the pathologies of the ego and its journey into Selfhood are considered in relation to the conditons of technology and the powers of nihilism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952243437621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0710204787","price":73.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780710204783.jpg?v=1770155698","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bodys-recollection-of-being","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}