{"product_id":"postural-ascesis-the-semiotics-of-elevation-and-the-phenomenology-of-vertical-thinking-9798271361029","title":"Postural Ascesis: The Semiotics of Elevation and the Phenomenology of Vertical Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pietro Cioni\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Analytic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to \u003ci\u003estand\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003cbr\u003eThis book argues that the human posture-so often reduced to anatomy-is, in truth, the most profound act of philosophy. From the first trembling of bipedal life to the highest gestures of art and ethics, \u003cb\u003estanding upright\u003c\/b\u003e is the discipline through which Being discloses itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending \u003cb\u003ephenomenology, philosophical anthropology, and aesthetics\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ascesis of Posture\u003c\/i\u003e redefines verticality as the axis of existence: a continuous struggle between gravity and transcendence, flesh and meaning. Drawing on thinkers from \u003cb\u003eHeidegger to Sloterdijk\u003c\/b\u003e, the work traces how posture evolves from biological necessity into ethical vocation, how the act of standing becomes an \u003cb\u003eexercise in freedom, care, and world-formation\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a time when humanity risks forgetting its own uprightness-bent before screens, comfort, and abstraction-this treatise calls for a recovery of \u003cb\u003eascesis\u003c\/b\u003e: the training that keeps consciousness vertical.\u003cbr\u003eTo stand, it suggests, is not merely to resist the fall, but to sustain the openness of the world itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA radical synthesis of ontology and embodiment, \u003ci\u003eThe Ascesis of Posture\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to rediscover philosophy's most ancient gesture-the human being who stands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47575982342295,"sku":"9798271361029","price":3344.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798271361029.webp?v=1774899577","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/postural-ascesis-the-semiotics-of-elevation-and-the-phenomenology-of-vertical-thinking-9798271361029","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}