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Home Rediscovered in Embodied Space/Time, Emotion, Imagination and the Human Animal

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The phenomenology of home requires a differing notion of embodiment, perception, space/time, imagination, and animality. Home is in lived space, a deep psychic structure, and a dialogue with built structures and the natural world. Home requires cultivation that can increase our sense of belonging, shelter, direction and purpose. Home shows us trajectories of the back and forth dialogue with the inanimate world, deep past, ancestors, qualities of the things, animals and the natural world. Home is key to dwelling in space in a centered way and appropriating the deep past. The meaning of home can lead to social efforts at providing homes and deepening ecological and historical awareness.

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Notes

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    Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Phenomenology of Perception. Trans. Colin Smith. (New York: The Humanities Press, 1962), 281.

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    Merleau-Ponty, 283.

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    Gunilla Norris, 69. Being Home: A Book of Meditations. (Tyler: Bell Tower Press, 1991)

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    Casey (2004), 302–303.

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    Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964). 47.

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    Casey (2004), 293).

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    Casey (2004), 294–295.

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    Edward S. Casey, Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 1993), 48.

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    Casey (1993), 104.

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    Merleau-Ponty, 67.

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    Merleau-Ponty, 212.

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    Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964), 186.

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    Merleau-Ponty (1962), 284.

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    Merleau-Ponty (1962), 284.

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    Merleau-Ponty (1962), 284.

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    Merleau-Ponty (1962), 284–85.

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    Bachelard, 5.

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    Bachelard (1969), 63.

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    Bachelard (2011), 71.

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    Merleau-Ponty (2010), 192.

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    Glen A. Mazis

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Mazis, G.A. (2022). Home Rediscovered in Embodied Space/Time, Emotion, Imagination and the Human Animal. In: Murungi, J., Ardito, L. (eds) Home - Lived Experiences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70392-9_7

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