The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness by Ferrarello, Susi; Hadjioannou, Christos;

Short description:

The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness is a valuable resource for those researching phenomenology and applications of phenomenology, and will also be of great interest to students and practitioners of mindfulness in areas such as counseling and psychotherapy.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness brings together two schools of thought and practice that – despite rarely being examined jointly – provide an incredibly fruitful way for exploring thinking, the mind, and the nature and practice of mindfulness.

Applying the concepts and methods of phenomenology, an international team of contributors explore mindfulness from a variety of different viewpoints and traditions. The handbook’s 35 chapters are divided into seven clear parts:

• Mindfulness in the Western Traditions


• Mindfulness in the Eastern Traditions


• Mindfulness, Ethics, and Well-Being


• Mindfulness, Time, and Attention


• Mindfulness and Embodiment


• Applications: Mindfulness in Life


• Conclusion: Mindfulness and Phenomenology?

Within these sections, a rich array of topics and themes are explored, ranging from Stoicism and the origins of mindfulness in Buddhism and eastern thought to meditation, self-awareness, the body and embodiment, and critiques of mindfulness. Additionally, the book delves into the ways the ideas of leading phenomenological thinkers, including Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and other leading thinkers, such as Irigaray, can contribute to understanding the relationship between phenomenology and mindfulness.

A valuable resource for those researching phenomenology and applications of phenomenology, this handbook will also be of great interest to students and practitioners of mindfulness in areas such as counseling and psychotherapy.

Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Pyrrhonian Epoché, Mindfulness, and Being-in-the-World

2 Mindfulness as Motivation for Phenomenological Reduction

3 A Levinassian Critique of Mindfulness

4 Merleau-Ponty and Mindfulness

5 Husserl and Mindfulness

6 Logoi of the Soul: Phenomenological Mindfulness in Plato’s Phaedrus

7 Heideggerian and Stoic Mindfulness: Two Competing Models with Common Ground

8 Radical Relationality: A Philosophical Approach to Mindfulness Inspired by Nishida Kitarō

9 Phenomenological Insights from Postural Yoga Practice

10 A Phenomenology of Mindfulness Practice in Sufism

11 Deluded Mindfulness

12 Deconstructing Mindfulness: Heidegger, Tanabe, and the Kyoto School

13 Could Mindfulness Be Short on Meaning?

14 Freeing Ourselves from Technology: Rethinking Mindfulness

15 ‘Let It Be’: Heidegger and Eckhart on Gelassenheit

16 Mindfulness as Open and Reflective Attention: A Phenomenological Perspective

17 Mindfulness As Ethical Practice: Lévinas’ Phenomenology and Engaging with the World

18 Contrasting Emotions and Notions of Temporality in Mindfulness Practice and in Heidegger’s Phenomenology

19 Varieties of Self-Consciousness in Mindfulness Meditation

20 Husserl on Emotional Expectations and Emotional Dispositions Towards the Future: A Contribution to Mindfulness Debates on Present Moment Awareness and Emotional Regulation

21 Being Mindful about Nothing

22 The Respiratory Context of Dukkha and Nirvana: The Buddha’s Mindful Phenomenology of Breathing

23 Between Phenomenology and Mindfulness: The Role of Presence in the Clinical and Therapeutic Context

24 Heidegger’s Gelassenheit as Embodied Mindfulness

25 Parallel Lives of Buddha and Socrates: On Epochè as Transcendental Transformation

26 Being Mindful of the Other

27 Mindfulness and the Phenomenology of Aesthetics: Reappraising Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty

28 Mindfulness and Creativity: The Impact of Michel Henry and Otto Rank on Psychoanalysis

29 The Mindfulness of Sacrifice: Towards a “Phenomenology” of History

30 Engaging with Life Mindfully

31 Meditation, Lucidity, and the Phenomenology of Daydreaming

32 Thinking Being: The Educational Scope of a Fruitful Convergence Between Phenomenology and Mindfulness

33 Phenomenology and Mindfulness-Awareness

34 Mindless Obfuscation: A Reply to Depraz, Petitmengin, and Bitbol

35 Mindful Clarification: Why It Is Necessary to Reply

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