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...