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- Title
Embodying Otherness: Shape-Shifting and the Natural World.
- Authors
Leder, Drew
- Abstract
This paper explores the ability and desire of the embodied self to "shape-shift"–to experience from within the capacities of animals, or natural phenomena like trees and mountains. Shape-shifting is discussed insofar as it manifests in a broad range of cultural domains, including children's play, mythico-religions iconography, spiritual practice, sports, the performing arts, and so on. This potential for shape-shifting is grounded not simply in our evolutionary history and biological kinships, but in the phenomenology of the lived-body. Our own powers are explored, expanded, and transformed through our communion with the non-human world.
- Subjects
MODERN philosophy; DOMINANT culture; KIN recognition; RECOGNITION (Psychology); PHENOMENOLOGY
- Publication
Environmental Philosophy, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
1718-0198
- Publication type
Article