The Body's Recollection of Being: Phenomenological Psychology and the Deconstruction of Nihilism

by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

Book Overview

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 our experience of well-being and pathology as embodied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0710204787
• ISBN13: 9780710204783
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"