Attunement Through Body Paperback - 1992

Name: Attunement Through the Body
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Author: Nagatomo, Shigenori
ISBN: 9780791412329

by Shigenori Nagatomo

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Preparatory to restoring humaneness, Attunement Through the Body offers an innovative, philosophical model for overcoming mind-body dualism and its negative consequences through a systematic elucidation of the concept and the phenomenon of attunement. It invites readers to re-evaluate an undue emphasis placed on the cognitive, intellectual knowledge in the West.

The book examines the concept of the lived body and then articulates the transformative dimension of our everyday mode of living our bodies vis-a-vis Yuasa Yasuo's concept of body-scheme, demonstrating that the unity disclosed can be brought to a higher degree. The book further describes the transformative dimension of our bodies in theoretical and practical aspects through the concept of the body emerging in the course of meditational self-cultivation that was practiced by Dogen Kigen, a medieval Japanese Zen master.

It then develops an original philosophical theory that differs from various Western theories such as Idealism, Empiricism, and Materialism. This theory articulates modes of attunement reflecting degrees of somatic knowledge. The theory implies a lifestyle appropriate for the coming century

Details

Title Attunement Through Body
Author Shigenori Nagatomo
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 334
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher State University of New York Press, Albany
Date 1992-08
ISBN 9780791412329 / 0791412326
Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Mind and body - History, Philosophy, Comparative
Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-39372
Dewey Decimal Code 128

About the author

Shigenori Nagatomo is Assistant Professor at Temple University. He is co-author of Science and Comparative Philosophy, and co-translator of The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory by Yuasa Yasuo, published by SUNY Press, and Toward Superconsciousness: Meditational Theory and Practice.