Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic

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 Patocka, 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--

• | Author: Susanna Trnka
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 222 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1501749226
• | ISBN-13: 9781501749223