A Process Model (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Just getting in touch with one’s feelings often brings no change, just the same feeling over and over. One must let a larger, wider, unclear felt sense form.

One could say, as the philosopher John Dewey did, that all art (verbal, visual, auditory, gustatory) is the transformation of the artist’s embodied self-awareness into a sensory form that leads back to another embodied experience, that of the person appreciating the work of art (Dewey, 1934). But that transformation is never perfect, hence the inhe

Gestures and sounds emanate from the body into language and thinking. With language incarnate we live consciously in time and rhythmically with others. Our embodied life extends into a horizon of possibility in which the past is history in our flesh, the present is the center of being and action, and the future is the trajectory of our felt imagina