Embodied Humanism: Toward Solidarity and Sensuous Enjoyment

by Jeff Noonan

There are many answers to the question of why life is worth living, but they all presuppose that good lives are sensuously enjoyable. Time seems to stand still in the moment when we enjoy food and drink, peaceful, laughing relationships with friends, or lay quietly, allowing the beauty of nature and human creations to unfold before us. Embodied Toward Solidarity and Sensuous Enjoyment explores ways that enjoyment is also political. The history of political struggle is a history of fighting back against silencing, hunger, and violent domination, but also fighting for social peace, need-satisfaction, voice, and democratic power. Tracing the values of embodied humanism across history and across cultures and identities, the book finds a more comprehensive universal humanist ethic around which old and emerging struggles can be unified. Ultimately, Jeff Noonan argues, these struggles can be directed towards creating institutional structure and individual dispositions that will secure the social conditions in which our capacities for receptive openness and delight are satisfied for each and all.

369 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 16, 2022

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[Bichara Sahely · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most life-coherent explication of the Way Forward

This book provides the philosophical life-coherent basis to a most beautiful and excellent and just world our hearts and minds and souls know is possible.