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Under the guidance of phenomenological insights, this book presents the sensuous in its elemental sense. The elemental is not to be confused here with the classical notion of the atom, which is viewed as a self-contained entity into which all reality is reducible. Rather, the elemental is a living creative force that resists categorization. This force embodies the principle of openness and opening, a principle celebrated and given expression by numerous artists and other friends of the sensuous. As elemental, the sensuous irreducibly expresses itself in multiple ways. The editors of this volume avoid posting themselves between the sensuous and those to whom it presents itself. Each of the contributors here responds to the call of the elemental, and each finds his or her starting point where everyone else starts and ends. The multiple voices brought together here constitute a concert, with the elemental sensuous as the conductor. In reading this book, the reader will become more aware of himself or herself, and more aware of the world in which he or she lives.

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Linda Ardito, PhD, continues her extensive research and writing in the arts and humanities after a long and distinguished career in New York as Professor of Music. She has authored book chapters in Rendezvous with the Sensuous: Readings on Aesthetics; Creativity: Fostering, Measuring and Contexts; and Symbolic Landscapes, and entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; The Grove Dictionary of American Music; and the Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development. She has also contributed journal articles to Skepsis; International Journal of Musicology; Ionia Publications; Forum Italicum; and Perspectives of New Music.John Murungi is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Towson University, USA, where he served as a Chair of the Department for more than twenty years. His research focuses on continental philosophy, African philosophy, aesthetics, and philosophy of law. He is the author of African Musical Aesthetics and An Introduction to African Legal Philosophy, and has co-authored several books, including Symbolic landscapes, Rendezvous with the Sensuous and Ecoscapes. He is the Co-Founder of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, Place, and runs a series of Geo-Aesthetics conferences.

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