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The article focuses on the role that cultural images of nature play in the human activity . The author shows that the Cartesian dualistic approach leads to the alienation of man from his own nature as a bodily experience . Imagination is considered as the link between corporeality and mind. Non-dualistic conception of human being is based on the structural theory of imagination of Gilbert Durand.
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“So ist denn auch das Wesen der Technik ganz und gar nichts Technisches.”
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It is noteworthy that Galen puts medicine (ἰατρική) in the first rank of the arts (τέχνες) with rhetoric, music, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, grammar and the law, as well as sculpture and painting, not considering it as something strictly applied like the art of a carpenter or shoemaker. See: (Galen 2014).
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The authors of science fiction stories often used this plot, describing the invasion of microscopic doctors inside the human body: for example, “Fantastic Voyage” (1966) by Isaac Asimov or “Swallow the Surgeon” (1970) by Soviet writer Georgiy Gurevich.
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Sautkin, A. (2019). Cultural Images of Nature as Paradigms of Human Practices. In: Methi, J., Sergeev, A., Bieńkowska, M., Nikiforova, B. (eds) Borderology: Cross-disciplinary Insights from the Border Zone. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99392-8_15
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