Carlos Astrada and Tetsuro Watsuji on the Phenomenology of Landscape

• Autores: Prestía, Martín José
• Año de publicación: 2021
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: CORPORALITY; HEIDEGGER; LANDSCAPE; PHENOMENOLOGY; SPATIALITY
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

The aim of this article is to critically compare the phenomenologies of landscape of two 20th-century philosophers deeply engaged with Heidegger’s thinking: Carlos Astrada and Tetsurō Watsuji. In the first section, I show how they understood the relationship between the human being and landscape. With specific peculiarities, they both considered that the analysis of “temporality” must be complemented with a treatment of “spatiality.” In the second section, I show that their analysis of spatiality was connected, on the one hand, to a re-evaluation of corporality, and, on the other hand, to a quest to emphasize the social-communitarian dimension of human existence. In the third section, I present their different interpretations of Heidegger’s notion of “Being-towards-death,” and establish the links between it and their phenomenologies of landscape. In the final section, I propose Astrada and Watsuji’s thoughts as the basis for an alternative modernity to that of the West.
Fil: Prestía, Martín José. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani". Área Teoría Política; Argentina