Circling Science

Phenomenology of Perception

First published
1945
Phénoménologie de la perception
Difficulty
Demanding
Edition
Trans. Donald A. Landes. Routledge, 2012.

Background

Earlier work that helps think about the practice, without being about it.

For a deeper understanding of embodiment: how our bodily involvement in the world underlies perception and experience.

Merleau-Ponty examines how bodily involvement in the world underlies perception and experience. In a circle, this supports noticing how posture, gaze, distance and movement take part in an encounter before anyone explains it.

The most demanding book here. Choose it if phenomenology itself interests you.

Questions to bring into a circle

  • How are posture, gaze, distance and movement already part of this encounter, before I explain it?

Directions that build on it

  1. Bodies in synchrony

    Builds on 4 works · 4 funding routes

    Do participants’ physiology and movement synchronise during a circle, and does synchrony track felt connection?

Read alongside

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Further reading

Cite

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945). Phenomenology of Perception. Trans. Donald A. Landes. Routledge, 2012.