a phenomenological ethnography of space DuFour, Tao creator author. text bibliography nyu 2022 monographic eng

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251 pages 24 cm. "Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl's phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty's well-known phenomenology of perception. Through a detailed study of his posthumously published and unpublished manuscripts, DuFour examines the depth and scope of Husserl's phenomenology of space. The book investigates his analyses of corporeity and the 'lived body,' extending to questions of intersubjective, intergenerational, and historical spatial experience, what DuFour terms the 'environmentality' of space. Combining in-depth architectural philosophical investigations of spatiality with a rich and intimate ethnography, Husserl and Spatiality speaks to themes in social and cultural anthropology from a theoretical perspective that addresses spatial practice and experience. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil, DuFour develops his analyses of Husserl's phenomenology through spatial accounts of ritual in the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé. The result is a methodological innovation and unique mode of spatial description that DuFour terms a 'phenomenological ethnography of space.' The book's profoundly interdisciplinary approach makes an incisive contribution relevant to academics and students of architecture and architectural theory, anthropology and material culture, and philosophy and environmental aesthetics"-- Introduction : Spatial description -- Phenomenon and method -- Corporeity and spatiality -- Space and the other -- A phenomenological ethnography of space -- Epilogue : Umweltlichkeit. Tao DuFour. Includes bibliographical references and index. Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 Space and time Candomblé B3279.H94 D86 2022 114 D86 2022 DuFour, Tao. New York : Routledge, 2022 (DLC) 2021019134 9780815361558 9781032103099 2021019133 DLC 210520 20241203092021.0 22042761 eng