New Self, New World - Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century

Key Facts and Insights from New Self, New World

• The book challenges the conventional wisdom of our culture's understanding of selfhood.
• It proposes that the sense of self that our culture instils in us is disconnected from the body and the world, and that this leads to a fundamental sense of dissatisfaction and dislocation.
• Shepherd suggests that we need to recover the sense of self that is grounded in the body and the world.
• He offers a radical new understanding of the body as a mode of perception and a source of wisdom.
• The book presents a critique of...

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