Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic

by Susanna Trnka

Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from concepts developed by two phenomenological philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patočka, and putting them in conversation with ethnographic analysis of the lives of contemporary Czechs, Susanna Trnka examines how embodiment is crucial for understanding our being-in-the-world.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501749226
• ISBN13: 9781501749223
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher