Coming to Our Senses - Softcover

Berman, Morris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553348639 ISBN 13: 9780553348637

Publisher: Bantam, 1990

Synopsis

Originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1989, "Coming to Our Senses" is the second volume in a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, and the recipient (in 1990) of the Governor's Writers Award for Washington State. (The first, "The Reenchantment of the World," was published in 1981 by Cornell University Press; the third, "Wandering God," was released in 2000 by the State University of New York Press.) The focus of this particular volume is the relationship between culture and the human body, and the somatic basis of Western religious experience. Whereas the first volume in the series is largely historical, and the third largely anthropological, "Coming to Our Senses" focuses on human psychology, especially the earliest years of life, and how this has historically influenced the nature of adult life and institutions in the West.

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Review:

"This is one of the most important books that will be written before the third millennium begins." -- Larry Dossey, M.D.

"[Berman has] stepped beyond intellectual history to become our foremost historian of experience" -- Guy Burneko, World Futures, vol. 30, 1990 

"A thought-provoking, boldly original book" -- Alex Raksin, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1989

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0553348639
• ISBN 13: 9780553348637
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 425