Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juhani Pallasmaa
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Sexual Appeal ◽  
Pedagogic Practices ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Human Embodiment ◽  
The Human Condition

In our culture, intelligence, emotions and embodied intuitions continue to be seen as separate categories. The body is regarded as a medium of identity as well as social and sexual appeal, but neglected as the ground of embodied existence and silent knowledge, or the full understanding of the human condition. Prevailing educational and pedagogic practices also still separate the mental and intellectual capacities from emotions and the senses, and the multifarious dimensions of human embodiment.

Women's Bodies Between National Hospitality and Domestic Biopolitics

Paragraph ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROSALYN DIPROSE
Keyword(s):  
Government Regulation ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Political Ontology ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The Human Condition

This paper develops a political ontology of hospitality from the philosophies of Arendt, Derrida and Levinas, paying particular attention to the gendered, temporal, and corporeal dimensions of hospitality. Arendt's claim, that central to the human condition and democratic plurality is the welcome of ‘natality’ (innovation or the birth of the new), is used to argue that the more that this hospitality becomes conditional under conservative political forces, the more that the time that it takes is given by women without acknowledgement or support. Women's bodies are thus caught within the dual poles of conservative government: regulation of the unpredictable expressions of ‘natality’ in the ‘home’ and management of the uniformity and ‘security’ of the nation. The limitations in Arendt's political ontology of hospitality are addressed by adding consideration of the operation of biopolitics and of the body as bios.

This is Who I Am

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-267
Author(s):  
John Logan Schell
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mainstream Culture ◽  
The Human Condition

As the body of comics increases, so, too, does the variety of subject matter. Comics now address profound aspects of the human condition, especially through the genre of memoir. However, it is not enough to note the breadth of memoir topically; it is critical to explore how these stories are told. Memoir in comics creates a space for experiencing the past in a visually dynamic way that both reflects and rejects literal or factual reality, supplanting it with a kind of subjectivity that embodies personal truths. This chapter explores how the medium of comics, through its hybridity and materiality, reveals the fictionality of autobiography in a stylized manner that still connects to personal experience in a way that manages to supersede realism. In addition, through their transgressive nature, comics synergize with voices and identities that move counter to mainstream culture, giving voice to the voiceless.

scholarly journals Hannah Arendt’s Hidden Phenomenology of the Body

Human Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles des Portes
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
German Version ◽  
Phenomenology Of The Body ◽  
Private Matter ◽  
The Human Condition

AbstractAmongst the Arendtian scholars, there is almost a consensus on Arendt’s supposedly reluctance to the question of the body. The Arendtian body is said to belong to the unpolitical realm of necessity, in other words, the body is a private matter that should not appear in public. It is antipolitical. However, in this paper, I want to suggest that there is a possibility to outline a phenomenology of embodied political action in what I think to be Arendt’s hidden phenomenology of the body. To make my point, I will first show that what the scholars call the Arendtian body is in fact an Arendtian Body. Secondly, in the German version of The Human Condition, Arendt surprisingly used the Heideggerian term Befindlichkeit (disposition) that, I will argue, outline the basis of a political phenomenology of the body in Arendt’s work. More precisely, I will try to show that political action is embodied, that there is a hexis, a pathos and an ethos of action.

scholarly journals Afterword

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-137
Author(s):  
David Howes
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Rule Of Reason ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Intensive Investigation ◽  
The Human Condition

The sensory turn and the affective turn in contemporary scholarship both crystalised at roughly the same time but then diverged. This special issue reintegrates them. Conjointly, these twin approaches direct attention to the multiplicity, agency, and interactivity of the full spectrum of human faculties (i.e., how the senses and affects intersect with and may also disrupt the rule of reason) in addition to highlighting the extent to which ‘the perceptual is political.’ The resulting paradigm has precipitated a shift from the study of communities as ‘imagined’ to how they are sensed and/or felt, and from a focus on ‘the human condition’ to the intensive investigation of the multiple ‘national post-revolutionary conditions’ that define the current conjuncture. By foregrounding the aesthetics of politics, and tracking the eruption of dis-sensus (laughter, graffiti, dissent) within the con-sensus that states seek to foster in their citizenry, this special issue sounds a much-needed wake-up call.

scholarly journals Apenas questão de gênero?

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (301) ◽  
pp. 44-74
Author(s):  
Antônio Moser
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Balanced Approach ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
The Human Condition

Síntese: As discussões sobre gênero se encontram mais acesas do que nunca. Por isso mesmo, merecem atenção. Para uma abordagem equilibrada convém partir dos mistérios do corpo e da sexualidade. Apesar das aparências em contrário, corpo e sexualidade são realidades dinâmicas, sujeitas a mudanças mais ou menos constantes. As biotecnologias acentuam ainda mais essa possibilidade de mudanças até há pouco, ou espontâneas ou efetivadas através de meios mais ou menos convencionais. Por isso mesmo, não podem ser ignoradas. A questão mais importante parece apontar para um diálogo sereno, através do qual se consiga mergulhar um pouco mais profundamente na condição humana. Toda radicalização tende a distorcer a realidade. A busca de um equilíbrio é fundamental neste momento em que a tentação dos reducionismos se faz presente em todas as realidades humanas. E o equilíbrio é encontrado na medida em que se valoriza tanto o esse, quanto o fieri: o que muda e o que permanece.Palavras-chave: Gênero. Corpo. Sexualidade. Biotecnologias. Alterações.Abstract: Discussions on gender are livelier than ever. For this very reason, they deserve our attention. For a balanced approach, we should start with the mysteries of the body and of sexuality. Despite appearances to the contrary, the body and sexuality are dynamic realities, subject to more or less constant change. Biotechnology further highlights this possibility of changes that until recently were either spontaneous or effected through more or less conventional means. Thus, they cannot be ignored. The most important issue seems to point to a serene dialogue, through which we can dive a little deeper into the human condition. Every radicalization tends to distort reality. The search for a balance is crucial at this time when the temptation of reductionism is present in all human realities. But the balance can only be found in so far as we can value both the esse and the fieri: i.e, that which changes and that which remains.Keywords: Gender. Body. Sexuality. Biotechnologies. Changes.

scholarly journals Gente alta é parente do tuiuiú, baixa é da anta: alteridades antropomórficas

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Werneck Regina
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Human Condition

RESUMOSão partilhadas reflexões acerca de uma pesquisa sobre quais as qualidades são destacadas pelas pessoas panará quando se reconhece o estatuto de sujeito dos humanos e não humanos. A partir de narrativas da origem da mulher e das práticas sociais a elas conectadas, é explicitado que a condição de humanidade é incompleta para abarcar a identificação de uma subjetividade. O que é associado à animalidade parece ser incluído na configuração de pessoa, incidindo nas formas corporais humana e animal do mesmo sujeito ou de pessoas que dele descenderam. Tornar inteligível a afirmativa de que gente alta descende de jaburu e baixa de anta entremeia o texto, contornando um antromorfismo heterogêneo e sugerindo que o comum entre humano e não humano inclui aspectos físicos, afetivos e performáticos. A relação entre alimento, divisão e multiplicação com o corpo é enfática e problematizada, paralelamente. Palavras-chave: Panará. Jê. Corpo. Humano. Não Humano. ABSTRACT Reflections are shared about a research on what qualities are highlighted by people Panará when it recognizes the status of subject of human and non human. From narratives of women's origin and social practices connected to them, it is explained that the human condition is incomplete to include the identification of a subjectivity. What is associated with animality seems to be included in one configuration, focusing the human body shapes and animals of the same subject or who it descended. Make intelligible the assertion that high people descended from jaburu and low tapir intersperses text, bypassing a heterogeneous anthropomorphism and suggesting that the common between human and non human includes physical, emotional and performative. The relationship between food, divide and multiply in the body is emphatic and problematized in parallel. Keywords: Panará. Gê. Body. Human. Not human.

The body as alterity: the case with gender dysphoria

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Gender Dysphoria ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Human Condition

This chapter argues that gender dysphoria—a person suffering from an incongruence between experienced gender and assigned gender—is another illustration of the vulnerable duplicity inherent in the human condition. I am not merely the matter of which I am made. Rather, I am that matter plus the form that I impose upon it. In trying to shape my matter, I experience myself as an autonomous person and, simultaneously, as a person whose autonomy is limited by the matter itself. Between sex and gender there is the same relationship as between matter and form. We can shape the matter we are ‘thrown into’ and give it the form we desire, obviously within the boundaries delimited by matter itself and by our capacity for autonomy. Being the person that I am is a task and a responsibility that consists in becoming who I am through what I am.

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