Consciousness in flesh : an unapologetic phenomenological study / Yochai Ataria.
2022
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Title
Consciousness in flesh : an unapologetic phenomenological study / Yochai Ataria.
Author
Ataria, Yochai, author.
ISBN
9783030868345 (electronic bk.)
3030868346 (electronic bk.)
9783030868338 (print)
3030868338
3030868346 (electronic bk.)
9783030868338 (print)
3030868338
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 155 pages) : illustrations
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10.1007/978-3-030-86834-5 doi
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BF201
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153
Summary
This book offers an uncompromising and unapologetic phenomenological study of altered states of consciousness in an attempt to understand the structure of human consciousness. Drawing on the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, it sets out to decipher the inextricable link between consciousness, body, and world. This link will be established through the presentation of in-depth phenomenological research conducted with former prisoners of war (POWs) and senior meditators. Focusing on two such disparate groups improves our understanding of the nature of the subjective experience in extreme situations -- when our sense of boundary is rigid and we are disconnected both from the body and the world (POWs); and when our sense of boundary is fluid and we feel unified with the world (meditators). Based on empirical-phenomenological research, this book will explain how the body that is from the outset thrown into the intersubjective world shapes the structure of consciousness. .
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Table of Contents
Phenomenology of the body - The subjective experience during altered states of consciousness - Embodied consciousness - Concluding essay: the knowing-body and a world of meaning.