ABSTRACT
The body-subject is a mind physically embodied, a body and a mind which always encounters the world from a particular point of view in a particular context at a particular time and in a particular place, a physical subject in space-time. The distinctive feature of Merleau-Ponty’s exposition of a phenomenological perspective is that it is grounded in the physicality and material existence of the human body in the world. Place and landscape may be conceived both in terms of bodily based left/right, back/front dualisms and in terms of being graded outwards from an embodied centre. Experience of the world always extends from the body and expands beyond the particularities of place. Places and landscapes are created and experienced through mobility as much as stasis, through the manner and sequence in which they are explored and sensed, approached and left.
