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Human Being, Bodily Being - Phenomenology from Classical India (Paperback)
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Human Being, Bodily Being - Phenomenology from Classical India (Paperback)
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on
contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity,
based on studies of classical Indian texts that deal with bodily
subjectivity. Examining four texts from different genres - a
medical handbook, epic dialogue, a manual of Buddhist practice, and
erotic poetry - he argues for a 'phenomenological ecology' of
bodily subjectivity in health, gender, contemplation, and
lovemaking. An ecology is a continuous and dynamic system of
interrelationships between elements, in which the salience accorded
to some type of relationship clarifies how the elements it relates
are to be identified. The paradigm of ecological phenomenology
obviates the need to choose between apparently incompatible
perspectives of the human. The delineation of body is arrived at by
working back phenomenologically from the world of experience, with
the acknowledgement that the point of arrival - a conception of
what counts as bodiliness - is dependent upon the exact motivation
for attending to experience, the areas of experience attended to,
and the expressive tools available to the phenomenologist.
Ecological phenomenology is pluralistic, yet integrates the ways
experience is attended to and studied, permitting apparently
inconsistent intuitions about bodiliness to be explored in novel
ways. Rather than seeing particular framings of our experience as
in tension with each other, we should see each such framing as
playing its own role according to the local descriptive and
analytic concern of a text.
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