Traversing : Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic /

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"Susanna Trnka's book is about ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and the kinds of persons we become as a result, a process she refers to as traversing. Drawing from philosophical concepts developed by two continental philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patočka,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trnka, Susanna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Manners and customs.
Ethnology > Philosophy.
Ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Ethnologie > Philosophie.
Ethnologie > Republique tcheque.
Ethnology > Czech Republic.
Czech Republic.
Czech Republic > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Susanna Trnka's book is about ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and the kinds of persons we become as a result, a process she refers to as traversing. Drawing from philosophical concepts developed by two continental philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patočka, and placing these concepts in conversation with ethnographic analysis of the lives of contemporary Czechs, the book examines how embodiment is crucial for understanding our being-in-the-world"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (222 pages).
ISBN:9781501749247

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