Traversing : embodied lifeworlds in the Czech Republic / Susanna Trnka. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trnka, Susanna, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Czech Republic--Social life and customs--Philosophy.

Czech Republic.

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Czech Republic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.) : 15 b&w halftones

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This text 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 Patoka, and putting them 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Movement, Technology, and Culture in the Making of (Czech) Lives

1. Footsteps through the City: Social Justice in Its Multiplicity

2. Digital Dwelling: The Everyday Freedoms of Technology Use

3. Ballroom Dance and Other Technologies of Sexuality and Desire

4. The New Europeans: Twenty-First-Century Families as Sites for Self-Realization

5. Making Moods: Food and Drink as Collective Acts of Sustenance, Pleasure, and Dissolution

6. Reconnection: Between the Power Lines and the Stars

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2020).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5017-4924-2

OCLC:

1112128800