{"product_id":"traversing-susanna-trnka-9781501749223","title":"Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTraversing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn particular, \u003ci\u003eTraversing\u003c\/i\u003e scrutinizes three kinds of movements we make as embodied actors in the world: how we move through time and space, be it by walking along city streets, gliding across the dance floor, or clicking our way through digital landscapes; how we move toward and away from one another, as erotic partners, family members, or fearful, ethnic \"others\"; and how we move toward ourselves and the earth we live on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003ci\u003eTraversing\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on tracing the ways in which the body and motion are fundamental to our lived experience of the world, so we can develop a better understanding of the empirical details of Czech society and what they can reveal to us about the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susanna Trnka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501749226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501749223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Susanna Trnka","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44213292400895,"sku":"9781501749223","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c6a39b4-37e3-4499-9d5d-180a8385ea44.jpg?v=1692113072","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/traversing-susanna-trnka-9781501749223","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}