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- The Spell of the Sensuous
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION TO THE INQUIRY
- TECHNICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE INQUIRY
- Intersubjectivity
- The Life-World
- PART II: MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE PARTICIPATORY NATURE OF PERCEPTION
- The Mindful Life of the Body
- The Body’s Silent conversation with Things
- The Animateness of the Perceptual world
- Perception as Participation
- Synaesthesia—The Fusion of the Senses
- The Recuperation of the Sensuous is the Rediscovery of the Earth
- Matter as Flesh
- Touching and Being Touched: The Reciprocity of the sensuous
- Such are the exchanges and metamorphoses that arise from the simple fact that our sentient bodies are entirely continuous with the vast body of the land, that “the presence of the world is precisely the presence of its flesh to my flesh.”24
- 3 The Flesh of Language
- —THOMAS MERTON
- Toward an Ecology of Language
- Word Magic
- 4 Animism and the Alphabet
- – SNYDER
- The Rapper’s Rhythm
- An Eternity of Unchanging Ideas
- Of Tongues in Trees
- Synaesthesia and the Encounter with the Other
- Tired of all who come with words, words but no language
- TOMAS TRANSTROMER
- The Language of the Birds
- Dreamtime
- Place and Memory
- 6 Time, Space, and the Eclipse of the Earth
- S TORIE
- PART I: ABSTRACTION
- The Abstraction of Space and Time
- The Indistinction of Space and Time in the Oral Universe
- Exiled in the word
- Absolute Space and Absolute Time
- PART II: THE LIVING PRESENT
- The Earthly Topology of Time
- In the Depths of the Sensuous
- 7 The Forgetting and Remembering of the Air
- —JOHN FIRE LAME DEER
- Wind and Spirit on the Great Plains
- Air and Awareness Among the Diné, or Navajo
- Wind, Breath, and Speech
- The Forgetting of the Air
- Membranes and Barriers
- Remembering
- Turning Inside Out
- —RAINER MARIA RILKE
- CHAPTER 1: THE ECOLOGY OF MAGIC
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Epigraph The Ecology of Magic PERSONAL INTRODUCTION TO THE INQUIRY Philosophy on the Way to Ecology TECHNICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE INQUIRY PART I: Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology PART II: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Participatory Nature of Perception The Flesh of Language Animism and the Alphabet In the Landscape of Language Time, Space, and the ...
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils—all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. This landscape of shadowed voices, these feathered bodies and antlers and tumbling streams—these breathing shapes are our family, the beings with whom we are engaged, with whom we struggle and suf...
ATE ONE EVENING I STEPPED OUT OF MY LITTLE HUT IN THE rice paddies of eastern Bali and found myself falling through space. Over my head the black sky was rippling with stars, densely clustered in some regions, almost blocking out the darkness between them, and more loosely scattered in other areas, pulsing and beckoning to each other. Behind them a...
PART I: EDMUND HUSSERL AND PHENOMENOLOGY T S NATURAL THAT WE TURN TO THE TRADITION OF PHENOMENOLOGY in order to understand the strange difference between the experienced world, or worlds, of indigenous, vernacular cultures and the world of modern European and North American civilization. For phenomenology is the Western philosophical tradition that...
In the early stages of his project, Husserl spoke of the world of experience (the “phenomenal” world) as a thoroughly subjective realm. In order to explore this realm philosophically, he insisted that it be viewed as a wholly mental dimension, an immaterial field of appearances. That which experiences this dimension—the experiencing self, or subjec...
Although Husserl at first wrote of the nonmaterial, mental character of experienced reality, his growing recognition of inter subjective experience, and of the body’s importance for such experience, ultimately led him to recognize a more primary, corporeal dimension, midway between the transcendental “consciousness” of his earlier analyses and the ...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty set out to radicalize Husserl’s phenomenology, both by clarifying the inconsistencies lodged in this philosophy by Husserl’s own ambivalences, and further, by disclosing a more eloquent way of speaking, a style of language which, by virtue of its fluidity, its carnal resonance, and its careful avoidance of abstract terms, migh...
We have seen, for instance, that the physical body came to play an increasingly important role in Husserl’s philosophy. Only by acknowledging the embodied nature of the experiencing self was Husserl able to avoid the pitfalls of solipsism. It is as visible, animate bodies that other selves or subjects make themselves evident in my subjective experi...
For Merleau-Ponty, all of the creativity and free-ranging mobility that we have come to associate with the human intellect is, in truth, an elaboration, or recapitulation, of a profound creativity already underway at the most immediate level of sensory perception. The sensing body is not a programmed machine but an active and open form, continually...
Where does perception originate? I cannot say truthfully that my perception of a particular wildflower, with its color and its fragrance, is determined or “caused” entirely by the flower—since other persons may experience a somewhat different fragrance, as even I, in a different moment or mood, may see the color differently, and indeed since any bu...
If we wish to choose a single term to characterize the event of perception, as it is disclosed by phenomenological attention, we may borrow the term “participation,” used by the early French anthropologist Lucien Lévy-Bruhl. The brilliant forerunner of today’s “cognitive” and “symbolic” schools of anthropology, Lévy-Bruhl used the word “participati...
Until now we have spoken of perception in primarily visual terms. Yet perception involves touching as well, and hearing and smelling and tasting. By the term “perception” we mean the concerted activity of all the body’s senses as they function and flourish together. Indeed, if I attend closely to my nonverbal experience of the shifting landscape th...
In the autumn of 1985, a strong hurricane ripped across suburban Long Island, where I was then living as a student. For several days afterward much of the populace was without electricity; power lines were down, telephone lines broken, and the roads were strewn with toppled trees. People had to walk to their jobs, and to whatever shops were still o...
In his final work, The Visible and the Invisible (a work interrupted by his sudden death in 1961), Merleau-Ponty was striving for a new way of speaking that would express this consanguinity of the human animal and the world it inhabits. Here he writes less about “the body” (which in his earlier work had signified primarily the human body) and begin...
In order to demonstrate, empirically, his notion of the Flesh, Merleau-Ponty provides what may be the most direct illustration of that which we have termed “participation.” He calls attention to the obvious but easily overlooked fact that my hand is able to touch things only because my hand is itself a touchable thing, and thus is entirely a part o...
✪ MERLEAU-PONTY’S NOTION OF THE FLESH OF THE WORLD, ALONG with his related discoveries regarding the reciprocity of perception, bring his work into startling consonance with the worldviews of many indigenous, oral cultures. According to cultural anthropologist Richard Nelson, in his exhaustive study of the ecology of the Koyukon Indians of north ce...
The rain surrounded the cabin ... with a whole world of meaning, of secrecy, of rumor. Think of it: all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody, drenching the thick mulch of dead leaves, soaking the trees, filling the gullies and crannies of the wood with water, washing out the places where men have stripped Ethe hillside.... Nobo...
VERY ATTEMPT TO DEFINITIVELY SAY WHAT LANGUAGE IS is subject to a curious limitation. For the only medium with which we can define language is language itself. We are therefore unable to circumscribe the whole of language within our definition. It may be best, then, to leave language undefined, and to thus acknowledge its open-endedness, its myster...
The more prevalent view of language, at least since the scientific revolution, and still assumed in some manner by most linguists today, considers any language to be a set of arbitrary but conventionally agreed upon words, or “signs,” linked by a purely formal system of syntactic and grammatical rules. Language, in this view, is rather like a code;...
Merleau-Ponty’s work on language is admittedly fragmentary and unfinished, cut short by his sudden death. Yet it provides the most extensive investigation we have, as yet, into the living experience of language—the way the expressive medium discloses itself to us when we do not pretend to stand outside it, but rather accept our inherence within it,...
T Lifting a brush, a burin, a pen, or a stylus is like releasing a bite or lifting a claw.
HE QUESTION REGARDING THE ORIGINS OF THE ECOLOGICAL crisis, or of modern civilization’s evident disregard for the needs of the natural world, has already provoked various responses from philosophers. There are those who suggest that a generally exploitative relation to the rest of nature is part and parcel of being human, and hence that the human s...
“... I’m a lover of learning, and trees and open country won’t teach me anything, whereas men in the town do.” These words are pronounced by Socrates, the wise and legendary father of Western philosophy, early in the course of the Phaedrus—surely one of the most eloquent and lyrical of the Platonic dialogues.16 Written by Socrates’ most illustriou...
Although Socrates himself may have been able to write little more than his own name, he made brilliant use of the new reflexive capacity introduced by the alphabet. Eric Havelock has suggested that the famed “Socratic dialectic”—which, in its simplest form, consisted in asking a speaker to explain what he has said—was primarily a method for disrupt...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
This work was done at the Philadelphia Association, a therapeutic community directed by Dr. R. D. Laing and his associates. A simple illustration of this may be found among many of the indigenous peoples of North America, for whom the English term “medicine” commonly translates a word meaning “power”— specifically, the sacred power received by a hu...
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