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Includes index.

Thinking through the body : educating for the humanities -- The body as background -- Self-knowledge and its discontents : from Socrates to somaesthetics -- Muscle memory and the somaesthetic pathologies of everyday life -- Somaesthetics in the philosophy classroom : a practical approach -- Somaesthetics and the limits of aesthetics -- Somaesthetics and Burke's sublime -- Pragmatism and cultural politics : from textualism to somaesthetics -- Body consciousness and performance : somaesthetics east and west -- Somaesthetics and architecture : a critical option -- Photography as performative process -- Asian ars erotica and the question of sexual aesthetics -- Somaesthetic awakening and the art of living : everyday aesthetics American transcendentalism and Japanese Zen practice -- Somatic style.

Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations."--Fernando Coronil, [I]American Journal of Sociology[/I] "Taussig has brought a formidable collection of data from arcane literary, journalistic, and biographical sources to bear on . . . questions of evil, torture, and politically institutionalized hatred and terror. His intent is laudable, and much of the book is brilliant, both in its discovery of how particular people perpetrated evil and others interpreted it."--Stehen G. Bunker, Social Science Quarterly. Weniger lesen