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Revisiting Sartre's Ontology of Embodiment in Being and Nothingness
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2011
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2014-05-27T14:35:02Z
Abstract
In Being and Nothingness (1943) Sartre includes a groundbreaking
chapter on 'the body' which treats of the body under three
headings: 'the body as being for-itself: facticity', 'the body-for-others',
and 'the third ontological dimension of the body'. Sartre's
phenomenology of the body has, in general, been neglected. In this
essay, I want to revisit Sartre's conception of embodiment. I shall argue
that Sartre, even more than Merleau-Ponty, is the phenomenologist par
excellence of the flesh (la chair) and of intersubjective intercorporeity
while emphasising that touching oneself is a merely contingent feature
and not 'the foundation for a study of corporeality'.
chapter on 'the body' which treats of the body under three
headings: 'the body as being for-itself: facticity', 'the body-for-others',
and 'the third ontological dimension of the body'. Sartre's
phenomenology of the body has, in general, been neglected. In this
essay, I want to revisit Sartre's conception of embodiment. I shall argue
that Sartre, even more than Merleau-Ponty, is the phenomenologist par
excellence of the flesh (la chair) and of intersubjective intercorporeity
while emphasising that touching oneself is a merely contingent feature
and not 'the foundation for a study of corporeality'.
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Book Chapter
Publisher
Ontos Verlag
Copyright (Published Version)
2011 Ontos Verlag
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Journal
Vesselin Petrov (ed.). Ontological Landscapes : Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces between Science and Philosophy
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