Externality and materiality as themes in the history of the human sciences
Fractal rev. psicol
; 20(1): 9-17, jan.-jun. 2008.
Article
in En
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ABSTRACT
This article presents and discusses some attempts to overcome the "Cartesian" dualism of "mind versus matter" and "interior versus exterior", in particular the attempts of anthropologist Tim Ingold in his book "The Perception of the Environment" (2000). Central to Ingold's argument is a shift in focus from structure to process (temporality), from design to growth, from the organism in a context to organism and environment as co-evolutionary and co-constitutive entities. Ingold builds on ecological thinking (Bateson and Gibson) and phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger). This article characterises Ingold's position as a neo-romantic reaction to the "linguistic turn" in the human sciences and the "genetic turn" in biology and compares his position to historical romanticism.(AU)
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
INDEXPSI
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LILACS
Main subject:
Philosophy
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Humanities
Type of study:
Qualitative_research
Language:
En
Journal:
Fractal rev. psicol
Journal subject:
PSICOLOGIA
Year:
2008
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Norway
Country of publication:
Brazil