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Premodern handcraft skills foster a language which opens an experiential pathway to local nature.
- Source :
- Acta Borealia; Jun2024, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p60-64, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Handcraft skills provide premodern cultures with an experiential channel to encounter nature both in humans and in their environment. This essay sketches a dialectical overview – the roots of which can be traced via Hegel back to Heraclitus – of how handcrafts are entangled with other meaning-generating semiotic activities and participate in enriching the experiential content of verbal discourses as well. By eroding the handcraft culture, technical and social progress – realized in practice by the industrial revolution and ideologically supported by the movement of Enlightenment – has injured the experiential content of our language and thus impaired our natura experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08003831
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Acta Borealia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176985835
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2024.2335840