The Primordial Dance - Paul Downes Kartoniert (TB)

This book argues that a silent axis of the unconscious world rests largely undiscovered. It recasts foundational concepts in the psychology of Freud Jung Carol Gilligan and R.D. Laing as well as in cognitive science to highlight this hidden unconscious axis: primordial spaces of diametric and concentric structures. The author generates fresh approaches to understanding the philosophy of early Heidegger and Derrida with the idea of cross-cultural diametric and concentric spaces fuelling a radical reinterpretation of early Heidegger's transcendental project and challenging a postmodern con sensus that reduces truths and experiences to mere socially constructed playthings of culture. The book which also examines projected structures in modernist art suggests a systematic refashioning of many Western assumptions but it is more than a deconstruction. It also attempts to offer a new interplay between structures and meaning as a spatial phenomenology. This significant expansion of the boundaries of human subjectivity opens alternative pathways for imagining what it means to be human in order to challenge the reduction of experience to instrumental reason.