The Body's Recollection of Being
Phenomenological Psychology and the Deconstruction of Nihilism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9216157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael E Zimmerman (0000-0002-2539-7441), David Michael Levin (0000-0001-8402-2394) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 435 |
| Publication date | 1986-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy East and West (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8221 • E-ISSN: 1529-1898 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1399000 |
| OpenAlex | W2005430347 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
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 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-Ponty's phenomenology to clarify Heidegger's 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
Cognitive psychology · Deconstruction (building) · Epistemology · Nihilism · Psychoanalysis · Recall · Educational Philosophies and Pedagogies · Engineering · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
Homing Instincts
Historicity, responsibility, subjectivity
Attaining composure through breath-awareness
The body's disclosure in phenomenological research
Can't Really Trust That, So What Can I Trust?”
Adorno vs. Levinas
Transformational experiences in young people
Rethinking (re)doing
Beyond Mind III
Psychospiritual Development of Female Adoptees Raised Within a Closed Adoption System
En algún lugar entre todas partes y ninguna parte
The Dialogics of Conversation
Experience-Based, Body-Anchored Qualitative Research Interviewing
Body connections
Establishing Embodiment in Psychology
The Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body
Philosophical-anthropological considerations for an existential-humanistic ecopsychology
Philosophical foundations of humanistic psychology
Grounding truth in the body
The Poetics of Green Esthetics
The Body's Insistence on Meaning
Los avances recientes en la Teoría del cuerpo
Meditative Dialogue
Ethics, politics and embodied imagination in crafting scientific knowledge
Enfleshing Embodiment
Interpretive, normative theory of education.1
Listening to Sociological Elders
The Past of Flesh
Social Theory, Body Politics, and Medical Geography
The Absent Body of Girls Made Visible
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2020 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |