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Through conducting a phenomenology of phenomenology — -reflection on and association to the lived experience of conducting a phenomenological study in which fifteen older women engaged in reflection on their experience of their body/'self'(s) throughout the lifecourse from the perspective of food and eating — the lived body emerged as the essential dimension of the researcher—participant relationship. Further reflection, from the disciplinary perspective of social work, led to the emergence of the lived body as the essential dimension in social work practice. Beginning by identifying the key components of this conceptualization: the lived body and the relationship, this article considers the lived body from three perspectives: feminist theory, social work and phenomenology, and describes the role of the relationship in phenomenological human science research and in social work practice. It parallels phenomenological research and social work practice as relationship-based ways of knowing. From this position, the lived body is the essential dimension in the researcher—participant and social worker—client relationships. Narrative excerpts from this study are used to embody the theoretical presentation.

What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can be actualized in virtual environments? Zeynep Akbal explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body and situates the results in context with existing theories in media sciences and the phenomenology of bodily perception. This study presents VR technology as a tool that can be used to more closely examine and study the fundamental intersections of the humanities and the natural sciences that explore the nature of perception.

The theme of the article is to question how the researcher's body is involved both in creating accesses to, and in interpreting, material from qualitative research interviews. The researcher's body is understood from a phenomenological perspective and regarded both as an access and as a limitation to the acquisition of knowledge. The article uses a concrete interview with an aerobic instructor, Edith, as means of illuminating this theme. It is attempted to discern connections between the context for the interview, how the material is created socially and textually and how the researcher utilizes information from own body in the interpretation of the material. The analysis illustrates what insights on a research process can involve, and shows some of the challenges inherent in an open and critical attitude in terms of the self and the other as embodied subjects. It is brought forward how the two parallel processes, both the interview and training, rest upon implicit conditions into which the article acquires greater insight. The article's contribution of knowledge is to illustrate how the researcher can follow up and interpret states noticed in her own body. This can be made explicit and put into a meaningful context through discussion, analysis and reflection.

What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can be actualized in virtual environments? Zeynep Akbal explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body and situates the results in context with existing theories in media sciences and the phenomenology of bodily perception. This study presents VR technology as a tool that can be used to more closely examine and study the fundamental intersections of the humanities and the natural sciences that explore the nature of perception

What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can be actualized in virtual environments? Zeynep Akbal explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body and situates the results in context with existing theories in media sciences and the phenomenology of bodily perception. This study presents VR technology as a tool that can be used to more closely examine and study the fundamental intersections of the humanities and the natural sciences that explore the nature of perception.

"This edited collection responds to Richard Kearney's recent work on touch, excarnation, and embodiment, as well as his broader work in carnal hermeneutics, which sets the stage for his return to and retrieval of the senses of the lived body. Here, fourteen scholars engage the breadth and depth of Kearney's work to illuminate our experience of the body. The essays collected within take up a wide variety of subjects, from nature to non-human animals to our experience of the sacred and the demonic, from art's account of touching to the political implications of various types of embodiment. Followed by an inspired new reflection from Kearney himself, in which he lays out his vision for "anacarnation," this volume is an important statement about the centrality of touch and embodiment in our experience, and a reminder that, despite the excarnating tendencies of contemporary life, the lived body remains a touchstone for wisdom in our increasingly complicated and fragile world. Written for scholars and students interested in touch, embodiment, phenomenology, and hermeneutics, this diverse and challenging collection contributes to a growing field of scholarship that recognises and attempts to correct the excarnating trends in philosophy and in culture at large"--

Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Re-touching Philosophy with Richard Kearney -- The Ana-Structure of the Fourth Reduction -- Hospitality and Healing -- Anacarnation -- The Essays -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Touching Nature -- Chapter 1: Thinking Like a Jaguar: Carnal Hermeneutics, Touch, and the Limits of Language -- Thinking Like a Jaguar -- Thinking Like a Human Thinking Like a Jaguar -- Carnal Hermeneutics and the Limits of Language -- Kearney's Hermeneutic Arc -- Touch -- Not Speaking, Like a Jaguar -- Silence -- Bodying Forth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Sensing the Call of Other Animals: Carnal Hermeneutics, and the Ethico-Moral Imagination -- What Constitutes One as Another? -- Genesis and Modernity -- Compassion as Carnal: Animals in the Ethico-Moral Imagination -- Unnatural Born Killers -- Carnal Ecology: Humans and Other Animals -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Embodied Human Being in Touch with the World: Richard Kearney, and Hedwig Conrad-Martius in Conversation -- Excarnation and Incarnation: For an Ecological Hospitality -- Transcendence and Retroscendence: For an Embodied Hermeneutics -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Touching the Sacred -- Chapter 4: Carnal Sacrality: Phenomenology, the Sacred, and Material Bodies in Richard Kearney -- The Persona and the Person -- Persona and/as Expression -- The Reduction(s) -- Phenomenology and Sacrality -- The (Religious) Implications of Carnal Sacrality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Deep Calls to Deep -- Introduction -- Historical Prelude -- Moral Imagination-Depth Ethics -- From the Depthless Present to Eschatological Hope -- Carnal Hermeneutics-Depth Ontology -- The Horizontal Interweaving of the Sensible and the Intelligible.