How can we escape Hegel? An emersive awareness through cosmic resonance

Abstract

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 cosmosis. Outdoor practices—here (1.a) Climbing, (1.b) the Fifth stroke, and (1.c) Blue therapy in the ocean—are no longer described from the point of view of physical performance but rather through the performativity of consciousness in contact with the elements. Resonance becomes cosmic through the impact of the elements on the sensitivity of the living body: the latter invents new forms of sports practices through motor adaptation, as in the fifth stroke. Becoming more one with the aquatic or aerial element implies, as in blue therapy, a state of cosmosis: both a fusion in the element and awakening. (2) A self-axis of perceptive resonance: Personal development is understood as a deepening of oneself through reflective practices. (2.a) Mindfulness meditation and (2.b) Tai chi are awakening techniques whose resonance radiates within the body and mind, as well as through movement and gesture in the world. The expansion of the field of consciousness here emerges as a consequence of resonance through awakening. Attuning to the body is a way to experience internal sensation.