The body is the starting point of our entire existence. Allowing for bodily involvement enables us to understand its possibilities and abilities and facilitates the progression towards the feelings and spaces mediated by it.

In the surprising recognition, it becomes clear that we do not only experience, suffer, and act subjectively, but also participate in a shared bodily constitution. However, this does not rob us of our individual goals and possibilities, which can be deepened and expanded through new pathways of intercorporeality. Schmitz's nuanced analyses of bodily perception, his discussions on space, and aesthetic devotion as a distance in being moved are of the utmost intellectual originality and furthermore serve as important building blocks of a philosophical therapeutic approach. The affective engagement with feelings is always bodily.

The book is aimed at anyone who wishes to re-understand themselves and the world from the perspective of the body: philosophers, artists, psychologists and psychotherapists, educators, and all interested individuals who want to learn about the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz over the past forty years in an easily understandable way.