Full Description
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
Acknowledgements
Table of Content
Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić: Introduction. Presence of the Body—Awareness In and Beyond Experience
PRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE
Leonida Kovač: Bodies and their Matter
Franc Chamberlain: Losing the Plot: Inappropriate Fictions and the Art of the Theatre
Milica Ivić: 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 Zorić: The Silent Performance of Mindfulness: Aware Corporeality / Corporeal Awareness of No-Self
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