Description

In 1838, Félix Ravaisson published *On Habit* , a short treatise that uses our habits as a springboard for reflecting on everything that occurs in the space between Will and Nature . In just a few pages, he deftly unfolds philosophical considerations that explore life from this very concrete reality: habits, paradoxically linked to change. From this vast terrain between what we choose to do and what we are compelled to do, from the consideration of our learned gestures and the sensations we weave with the world, Ravaisson invites us to examine closely this intermediate space of habits as our unique way of existing, where a certain effort unites the active and the passive. An effort in the middle, at the boundary, which is nothing less than another name for consciousness.

Ravaisson even asks himself: is it a touch between activity and passivity? In 2015 a new Spanish translation of On Habit was published, accompanied by a text where Marie Bardet proposes a reading that crosses Ravaisson's habit with questions of dance, learning (through) movement and a certain exploration of our gestures, taking the experience of the Feldenkrais method as an example.

Authors
Félix Ravaisson
Marie Bardet

Technical specifications
Edited by: Cactus
Year: 2015
Type: Exhibition catalog
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 15 x 11 cm
Weight: 100 gr
Spanish
Pages: 96
ISBN: 978-987-3831-06-5