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Bodily habit
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Learning a bodily habit can change how a situation becomes available to act in. A habit is neither a stored rule alone nor a demand that good action be effortless.
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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 6 of 9
Learning a way of moving
Learning a skill, or adapting to a changed tool, can alter what a body is able to do. Following Merleau-Ponty on the body schema and habit, the lesson asks whether his account gives fluency too much authority.
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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world
Follow Husserl and Merleau-Ponty from the appearance of a familiar thing to time, bodily skill, expression and other people. Test what their descriptions establish, where their methods differ and what still needs evidence or an ethical argument.