Externality and materiality as themes in the history of the human sciences

Autores

  • Henrik Sinding-Larsen University of Oslo, Norway

Palavras-chave:

Materiality, Cartesian dualism, Ecological perspective

Resumo

This article presents and discusses some attempts to overcome the “Cartesian” dualism of “mind versus matter” and “interior versus exterior”, in particular the attempts of anthropologist Tim Ingold in his book “The Perception of the Environment” (2000). Central to Ingold’s argument is a shift in focus from structure to process (temporality), from design to growth, from the organism in a context to organism and environment as co-evolutionary and co-constitutive entities. Ingold builds on ecological thinking (Bateson and Gibson) and phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger). This article characterises Ingold’s position as a neo-romantic reaction to the “linguistic turn” in the human sciences and the “genetic turn” in biology and compares his position to historical romanticism.

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Biografia do Autor

Henrik Sinding-Larsen, University of Oslo, Norway

Anthropologist, researcher at CULCOM (Cultural complexity in the new Norway), Strategic research programme, University of Oslo, Norway. Postal address: CULCOM c/o SAI, P.O. Box 1091 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway.

Publicado

2008-10-04

Como Citar

SINDING-LARSEN, H. Externality and materiality as themes in the history of the human sciences. Fractal: Revista de Psicologia, v. 20, n. 1, p. 09-18, 4 out. 2008.