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Beyond the Textual Bias, Towards Pretextual Experience: Therapeutic Guidelines

Summary/Abstract: This article indicates possible ways of researching cultural reality as a dimension of experience. Victor Turner’s project of the anthropology of experience opens up such possibilities, though Turner also encountered serious obstacles such as the systemic approach, which is binding in the discipline. This approach is rooted in the textual bias that dominates Western science and culture – a tendency that results from advanced literacy and that leads to the textualization of reality, thus eliminating or distorting many of its manifestations. Overcoming this tendency necessitates breaking with the binding patterns of scientific thinking and working towards the creation of some kind of counter-science. The theoretical initiatives that emerged from the theory of practice and the cultural phenomenology can be helpful here, although approaching the cultural experience of the Other demands constant efforts on the researcher’s part. Godlewski suggests, however, that to identify and eliminate manifestations of text-centrism in one’s own mind can be a form of cognitive self-therapy.

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