Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation

by David Forbes

Book Overview

Mindfulness, a way to alleviate suffering by realizing the impermanence of the self and our interdependence with others, has been severed from its Buddhist roots. In the late-stage-capitalist, neoliberal, solipsistic West, it becomes McMindfulness, a practice that instead shores up the privatized self, and is corporatized and repackaged as a strategy to cope with our stressful society through an emphasis on self-responsibility and self-promotion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773631160
• ISBN13: 9781773631165
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"