Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic
Susanna Trnka, "Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic"
English | ISBN: 1501749226 | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1501749226 | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from concepts developed by two phenomenological philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patočka, and putting them in conversation with ethnographic analysis of the lives of contemporary Czechs, Susanna Trnka examines how embodiment is crucial for understanding our being-in-the-world.
In particular, Traversing scrutinizes three kinds of movements we make as embodied actors in the world: how we move through time and space, be it by walking along city streets, gliding across the dance floor, or clicking our way through digital landscapes; how we move toward and away from one another, as erotic partners, family members, or fearful, ethnic "others"; and how we move toward ourselves and the earth we live on.
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