Presence of the Body

Awareness in and Beyond Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32875-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 50, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hofmann, Gert

Zoric, Snjezana

Zoric, Snježana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Bewusstseinszustände
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Table of Content

Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zoric: Introduction. Presence of the Body—Awareness In and Beyond Experience

PRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE

Leonida Kovac: Bodies and their Matter
Franc Chamberlain: Losing the Plot: Inappropriate Fictions and the Art of the Theatre
Milica Ivic: Examining Body Limits
Josip Zanki: Ritualised Corporeality in Contemporary Croatian Art

THE ACT OF WRITING

Lidija Štrmelj: Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Karin Bauer: Lost in Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof’s Body in Poetry
Anja Seiler: Foreign Language—Foreign Body: The Embodiment of Sprachfremde in Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen and Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage
Elisa Primavera-Lévy: Putting Hell on Paper: Chronic Pain Patients and the Challenge of Illness Narratives
Sara Strauß: Neuroethical Reflections on Body and Awareness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Ian McEwan’s Saturday
Tanja Reiffenrath: Self, Interrupted: Body, Awareness, and Continuity in Oliver Sacks’s A Leg to Stand On
Sabine Wilke: Performances in the Anthropocene: Embodiment and Environment(s) in Ilija Trojanow’s Climate Change Novel
Gert Hofmann: Disintegrating Identities: Bodily Presence in Contemporary Writing

EXPERIENCE OF SELF-TRANSCENDENCE

Graham Parkes: Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies
Snježana Zoric: The Silent Performance of Mindfulness: Aware Corporeality / Corporeal Awareness of No-Self

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gert Hofmann, Dr. phil. habil. (2011, University of Rostock) is Head of the Department of German at the National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC). He has published extensively on literary and cultural theory, including Schweigende Tropen. Studien zu einer Ästhetik der Ohnmacht (Francke, 2003).

Snježana Zoric, Dr. phil. (2000, University of Zagreb), is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zadar. She has published widely on Asian religions and anthropological theory, including Yongsan-jae. Buddhist Ritual as a Mirror Image of the Korean Culture (Institute of Ethnology and Folkloristics, Zagreb, 2004).