Body: an ambiguous sort of being. Approach toward philosophy of body in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology

This work is an approximation to the philosophy of body starting from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception -- Based on the concept of phenomenal body, we find a conception of body depicted as an ambiguous sort of being -- The following sections are developed: the bodily experience: pe...

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Autores:
Espinal Pérez, Cruz Elena
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Fecha de publicación:
2011
Institución:
Universidad EAFIT
Repositorio:
Repositorio EAFIT
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/4560
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10784/4560
Palabra clave:
Temporalidad
ESPACIO Y TIEMPO
FENOMENOLOGÍA EXISTENCIAL
INTENCIONALIDAD (FILOSOFÍA)
MENTE Y CUERPO
PERCEPCIÓN DEL TIEMPO
Space and time
Existential phenomnology
Mind and body
Intentionality (Philosophy)
Subjectivity
Temporalidad
Rights
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Summary:This work is an approximation to the philosophy of body starting from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception -- Based on the concept of phenomenal body, we find a conception of body depicted as an ambiguous sort of being -- The following sections are developed: the bodily experience: perception and object, the phenomenal body and the experience of space, temporality: retention and propensity, being-in-the-world and body as expressive space -- So, from the experience of the own’s body and against the idea of a subject who owns himself through self-understanding, it is shown how the boundaries between subject and object, activity and passivity, interiority and exteriority or spirit and nature vanish in the ambiguity of the body and the existence