Presence of the body : awareness in and beyond experience / edited by Gert Hofmann, National University of Ireland, Snjezana Zoric, University of Zadar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hofmann, Gert, 1958-

Zorić, Snježana.

Series:

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 50.

Consciousness, literature and the arts ; v. 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

Human beings in art.

Human body in mass media.

Human body (Philosophy).

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

Presence of the Body provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dialogue between theory and practice about the impact of the body on human awareness in the fields of art, writing, meditative practice, and performance. This dialogue benefits from the neuro-systematic integration of “embodied” knowledge in the cognitive sciences, but it also suggests creative and transformative dynamics of embodiment which, beyond conceptualisation, emerge in sophisticated acts of writing, performing and meditating. Exploring the presence and experience character of the body-awareness relationship, a double perspective beyond cognitive fixations is suggested: 1) a body-centred touch of the world which inspires life as a creative ‘writing’ process, and 2) in line with Buddhist thought, an empty space of ‘pure presence’ from which all conscious processes originate.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić

Introduction: Presence of the Body—Awareness in and beyond Experience / Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić

Bodies and Their Matter / Leonida Kovač

Losing the Plot: Inappropriate Fictions and the Art of the Theatre / Franc Chamberlain

Examining Body Limits / Milica Ivić

Ritualised Corporeality in Contemporary Croatian Art / Josip Zanki

Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales / Lidija Štrmelj

Lost in Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof’s Body in Poetry / Karin Bauer

Foreign Language—Foreign Body: The Embodiment of Sprachfremde in Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen and Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage / Anja K. Seiler

Putting Hell on Paper: Chronic Pain Patients and the Challenge of Illness Narratives / Elisa Primavera-Lévy

Neuroethical Reflections on Body and Awareness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Ian McEwan’s Saturday / Sara Strauß

Self, Interrupted: Body, Awareness, and Continuity in Oliver Sacks’s A Leg to Stand On / Tanja Reiffenrath

Performances in the Anthropocene: Embodiment and Environment(s) in Ilija Trojanow’s Climate Change Novel / Sabine Wilke

Disintegrating Identities: Bodily Presence in Contemporary Writing / Gert Hofmann

Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies / Graham Parkes

The Silent Performance of Mindfulness: Aware Corporeality / Corporeal Awareness of No-Self / Snježana Zorić

Index / Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004334748

9004334742

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004334748 DOI