2. Training—Sensing—Predicting: Towards a Theory of the Reception of Practices as Embodied
Embodied Reception - South Asian Spiritualities in Contemporary Contexts - Henriette Hanky
Anne Koch [+]
University of Freiburg
Description
Since the cultural turn, the embodiment of practices is an axiom. But what does “embodiment” mean? And how can embodied knowledge, embodied practices, and embodied reception be operationalized and related to specific contexts instead of just claiming embodiment as a matter of fact? What difference does an account of the embodiment of practices make regarding theoretical stances that take other dimensions into account, like semiotics or power structures? We will sketch the relevance of the philosophy of mind for embodiment because embodiment touches the very base of science: epistemology and the conception of the subject/agent. Against this backdrop, body knowledge and training knowledge will be introduced, which prepares us for a bundle of further subcategories appropriate for analyzing the dynamics of cultural reception, especially of embodied practices.