Bibliograph

Traversing, embodied lifeworlds in the Czech Republic, Susanna Trnka

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Traversing, embodied lifeworlds in the Czech Republic, Susanna Trnka

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Traversing

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Susanna Trnka

Sub title

embodied lifeworlds in the Czech Republic

Summary

Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world, and how these shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from philosophical 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 across digital landscapes; how we move towards and away from one another, as erotic partners, family members, or fearful, ethnic "others," and how we move towards ourselves and the earth we live upon. Above all, Traversing focuses on tracing the ways in which the body and motion are fundamental to our lived experience of the world in order to develop a better understanding of the empirical details of Czech society and what they can reveal to us about the human condition

Target audience

adult

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