ABSTRACT How can we escape Hegel to move beyond the logic of alienation and toward a transformative resonance? This is the meaning Rosa attributes to ‘the dialectical model designed by the philosopher Hegel’. Here, we study a disposition to resonance without reducing it to a search for positive emotions, through five forms of emersive resonant practices: (1) Cosmic resonance: undulation and...
ABSTRACT This paper examines a single relevant source regarding Edmund Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and his attempt to explain how we perceive and experience the Other. In the fifth chapter of the Cartesian Meditations, Husserl describes our encounters with others through a process of non-inferential analogy and details the ways we ‘appresent’ the Other. This unique and admittedly...
ABSTRACT Qigong practices are contemplative body practices and meditation techniques that emerge from Chinese philosophical, medical, and martial traditions. This paper argues that qigong is a kind of embodied philosophical activity that is analogous to the ‘slow philosophy’ called for by Michelle Boulous Walker. Four features of Walker’s slow philosophy are highlighted: (i) careful slowness,...