Author : Susanna Trnka
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501749242
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Book Synopsis Traversing by : Susanna Trnka
Download or read book Traversing written by Susanna Trnka and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Above all, Traversing focuses on tracing the ways in which the body and motion are fundamental to our lived experience of the world, so we can develop a better understanding of the empirical details of Czech society and what they can reveal to us about the human condition.