An ambitious and provocative analysis of the relationship between culture mind and body in the history of Western society Morris Bermans influential classic Coming to our Senses has been engrossing audiences with its carefullyresearched and thoughtful exploration of somatic experience for decades. Finally back in print for a new generation of readers Bermans treatise on the Wests historic denial of physicality is relevant as ever in a society increasingly plagued by addiction depression and distraction. Berman deftly weaves threads of history philosophy and psychoanalysis into an elegant and accessible argument about the ways our physical experience of the world relates to the culture in which we exist.