Re: knowledge, body, responsivity

Francoise Herrmann (fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org)
Fri, 28 Jun 1996 09:54:51 -0700 (PDT)

> Hi Francoise,
> (1) thanks for the reference. It'll wait, though. Lund's university
> library hasn't got it, I'll have to order it inter-lib.
> (2) In fact, the grounding of knowledge in the body (experience
> already has been, by Husserl) is my _obsession_, not headache
> in the "Bulgakov" sense I mentioned it in my letters.
>
> When I was referring to headaches "in the "Bulgakov" sense"
> I meant the situation when _you_ recognize, notice, and respond to
> _another persons_ headache.
> Something is happening: her/his headache has become yours.
> In fact, your letter illustrates this:
> * You notice that something is important for me
> * You recognize it as a reason for responding
> * You respond
> This is always grounded in the body: at least because it is
> consuming the time the body has left to live. What do you make of it
> as a way of grounding activity in the body? And a follow-up_ what of
> the notion that all activity is grounded in the body, through
> responsivity?
>
> Piotr
>
>
Hi Piotr, Yes I agree with responsivity, I care, but don't wait too long
for the tylenol, lest your headache becomes a bad migraine. Here are
as some previews (from Maxine):
"...The thesis of this book is that in each case the living body served
as a semantic template. Concepts were either generated or awakened by
the living body in the course of everyday actions such as chewing,
urinating, striding,, standing, breathing abd so on. As everyday actions
gave rise to new concepts, so new concepts gave rise to new possibilities,
new possibilities to new ways of living, and new ways of living to to
the establishment finally of those revolutionary new practices and beliefs
thata re difintive of hominid evolution..."

"...The key to an understanding of the dynamics of the reciprocal relationship
between hominid thinking and hominid evolution lies in deepened understandings
of the body, specifically, in corporeal analyses of a hominid animate and t
tactile-kinesthetic body. By animate form is meant a species-specific body
with all its various spatial conformations, and attendant everyday postures,
modes of locomotion, movements and gestures. ... The tactile-kinesthetic
body is the sentiently felt body, the body that knows the world through
toush and movement. ..."

Baffling though to me is the split between knwledge and experience. I would
be completely obsessed.

Francoise
Francoise Herrmann
fherrmann who-is-at igc.org