Mindfulness and its discontents : education, self, and social transformation

Mindfulness and its discontents : education, self, and social transformation /

"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 privati...

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Main Author: Forbes, David, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Black Point, Nova Scotia ; Winnipeg, Manitoba : Fernwood Publishing, [2019]
Subjects:
Mindfulness (Psychology)
Self-realization.
Education > Psychological aspects.
Neoliberalism.
Education.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Non/Song of My Non/Self
  • A Fateful Deal
  • McMindfulness and Neoliberalism: A Prophetic Critique
  • The Mindfulness Industrial Complex: The Happy Self
  • Seeing Things "As They Are": Relative and Absolute
  • Mind, Self, and Transformation
  • Smile, Anger, Judgement
  • What Water? Moral Passion and Truth in David Foster Wallace
  • Interiority: The Persistence of Inner Life
  • Interiority: Self and Moral Development
  • Culture as Context: Malignant Normalcy
  • Society as Context: Neoliberal Education
  • Social-Emotional Learning and Mindfulness
  • Neuroscience: The Search for the Golden Egg
  • New Visions for a Counter Program

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