| Title: | Animal pneuma : reflections on environmental respiratory phenomenology |
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| Authors: | ID Škof, Lenart (Author) |
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| Files: |  URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9020033
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZRS Koper - Science and Research Centre Koper
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| Abstract: | This essay is an attempt to propose an outline of a new respiratory animal philosophy. Based on an analysis of the forgetting of breath in Western philosophy, it aims to gesture towards a future, breathful and compassionate world of co-sharing and co-breathing. In the first part, the basic features of forgetting of breath are explained based on David Abram’s work in respiratory ecophilosophy. This part also introduces an important contribution to modern philosophy by Ludwig Klages. The second part is dedicated to reflections on what I understand as an unfortunate transition from soul and pneuma to spirit and Geist. Based on these analyses, I proceed towards an idiosyncratic thought on the nocturnal mystery of pneuma, with references to ancient Upanishadic and 20th-century phenomenological Levinasian thought. Based on these teachings, I argue that, at the bottom of her existence, the subject is a lung partaking in an immense external lung (Merleau-Ponty). In the fourth part of the essay, I extend my reflections toward comparative animal respiratory phenomenology and argue for the immense compassion for all our fellow breathing beings. Finally, in the concluding, fifth part of this essay, I am arguing for a future biocentric and breathful environment, signifying and bringing a new compassionate-respiratory alliance into the world. |
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| Keywords: | pneuma, psyche, breath, animal breath, respiratory phenomenology, environmental philosophy |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Article acceptance date: | 01.03.2024 |
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| Publication date: | 05.03.2024 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2024 |
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| Number of pages: | 10 str. |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 9, iss. 2, [article no.] 33 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-18332  |
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| UDC: | 159.9.016.1:14 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2409-9287 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/philosophies9020033 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 188085251 |
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| Copyright: | © 2024 by the author |
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| Note: | Nasl. z nasl. zaslona;
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 07.03.2024 |
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