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Mazis takes readers on a thought-provoking foray against traditional forms of dualism or separation of the in-process embodied self from the world ... The approach is personal and thoughtful-an aesthetic description of a life that involves an implicit either/or dichotomy, bringing in aspects of art, religion, and philosophy in opposition to the traditional modernist characterization of human life. It is a rich tapestry describing a therapeutic transformation of bodily identity from separation to integration. - CHOICE Mazis's vision destroys the sickly detachment and alienation engendered by the psycho-physical dualism endemic in our culture-which includes scientism: the view, unsupportable by science, that only science can know. A number of his insights are absolutely novel and liberating, e.g., that the electronic 'virtual reality' of today is just an extension of who we are already-beings charged by potentiality, ideality, fiction. But, there's a horrifying danger in it-that we will become obsessed by virtual reality and tear to pieces our roots as ancient whole bodies in a whole earth. Marvelously, Mazis contrasts his 'dancing logic' and the traditional 'diabolical logic.' By the latter he means the systematic and by now-so-habitual-as-to-be-invisible denial of 'the palpable.'And what is that? The way the universe has evolved us by palpating our bodies: nursing, coaxing, stopping, molding, guiding, luring, regenerating us. The regenerating dancing of earthbodies in the embrace of the palpating earth must be ritualized to ever-regenerate us in a world in which our substance can deliquesce and dissipate without our knowing what's happening. - Bruce Wilshire, author of Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy This is how philosophy should be done: lyrical, full of care, thoughtful, modest in tone while ambitious in conception. A work that exemplifies that phenomenology can contribute to the cultural conversation. It ignores today's intellectual fashions and pretensions, and has real ideas that offer an antidote to our rushed civilization. - Robert Frodeman, editor of Earth Matters: The Earth Sciences, Philosophy, and the Claims of Community

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Glen A. Mazis is Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Soka University and Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Penn State at Harrisburg. He is the author of Emotion and Embodiment: Fragile Ontology and The Trickster, Magician & Grieving Man: Reconnecting Men with Earth.

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