Footprints through the Weather-World: Walking, Breathing, Knowing

Making Knowledge: Explorations of the Indissoluble Relation Between Mind, Body and Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 115-132

  Ingold, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulatory knowing, pedestrian movement temperate experience; Distinction between surface of the earth and its surfacing, key criterion; Domain of immaterial form, pure ideas or concepts experience into systematic knowledge; Experience of weather, root of one's moods temperament of one's being; Footprints through the weather world walking, breathing, knowing; Gibson's understanding of surface none of metaphysical significance, as in Kant or Marx; Ground of a footpath, variegated the way, passing feet compress the soil; Kant, on sophisticated analogy topology of the mind and earth's surface; Knowledge formed along paths of movement in weather world; Paths, not being straight drawing a perfectly straight line freehand, without a ruler

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EID: 84885962966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444391473.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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