Multisensory sources of human cognition. A review of the enactive approach in political science

The traditionally understood world of politics did not ontologically elongate beyond its own internally replicated rituals. For the average denizen, the construal of a set of political views was to be constrained to the definition proposed by its theoreticians or those in power. There is no doubt, however, that one of the most consequential factors influencing the perception of convivial authenticity is the senses involved in physical activities cognate to participation in the collective life of the community—family, religious, but additionally political. It is consequently infeasible not to descry the interaction of the senses and political life. The enactive approach as a theoretical background is used to enlighten how the everyday usage of senses shapes people's cognition of politics depending on geographical, time, and cultural conditions. Throughout the paper, the Author attempts to review what was already written about enactivism and outline the possibilities this approach provides in political science.