Coming To Our Senses by Morris Berman
Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West
The book argues that modern Western civilization has become progressively disembodied and dominated by abstract, instrumental reason, producing a sensory impoverishment that undermines human well‑being and ecological sustainability. Tracing historical shifts from ancient sensory‑integrated cultures through Cartesian dualism, mechanization, and consumer technologized society, it diagnoses how a split between mind and body and the elevation of technique displaced bodily wisdom, ritual, and communal life. It calls for a cultural transformation: recovering embodied intelligence through contemplative and communal practices, limiting reckless technological expansion, and reestablishing an ecologically attuned, meaning‑filled way of living.
- Published
- 1989
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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