Wild Eco-embodiment: Understanding Inter-constituent Wilderness Worlds
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I lean hard on Heidegger. In Being and Time (19xx) he works out definitions of significance and meaning.
Significance
I investigate the human-wilderness Bedeutsamkeit, that is, significance: the enmeshed involvements of Dasein (somebody) with wild places. "We conceive the relational character of these relations of referring [Verweisens] as signifying [be-deuten]. In its familiarity with these relations Dasein 'signifies' ['bedeutet', i.e. interprets] to itself, it primordially gives itself to understand its being and ability-to-be with regard to its being-in-the-world. The For-the-sake-of-which [Das Worumwillen] signifies [bedeuted, i.e. points out] an In-order-to [ein Um-zu]; this in turn [ein Wobei] of letting-be-involved; the In-which signifies a With-which [ein Womit] of involvement. [...] The relational whole of this signifying [Bedeutens] we call Beduetsamkeit" (BT, 87; cf. 359f., 364).Meaning
Meaning (Sinn or Sens) is the totality of significance that exists for somebody in their everyday involvement within a world (Umwelt, i.e. surrounding environment). For Morris (2004, p. 24) “Sens…is neither a meaning in the head
nor is it interior to subjectivity; it is a meaning within a movement that
crosses body and world.” To be released towards the world is be oriented toward
the gathering of meaning; “the meaning [Sinn]
which reigns in everything that is” (Heidegger, 2001, p. 46, as quoted with
emphasis and annotation added in James, 2012, p. 37). Morris’s sens and Heidegger’s Sinn are both linked to meaning as an
interpretant of lived experience. This relates the experientially embodied
aspect of gathering wilderness meaning.
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