Dimensions of Corporeality. A Metatheoretical Analysis of Anthropologists' Concern with the Human Body

• Authors: Bielas Jacek , Abramciów Rafał
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Since the very dawn of its history, modern philosophical anthropology has been addressing the issue of the human body. As a result of those efforts, Descartes, de Biran, Husserl, Sartre, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty and others have brought forward a variety of conceptions concerning various aspects of human corporeality. Anthropological explorations concerning the question of the human body, appear in a particularly interesting way, when they are considered in the context of those points of view which, in an essential way, refer to the subjective character of the human being. It is a matter of reconstructing and analyzing how the subject's corporeality is given to the subject, originarily, according to the phenomenological rule zu den Sachen selbst. The aim of this paper is thus to put into some order the concerns of a variety of anthropologists with regard to the question of the human body, as it is given to, or experienced by, the subject. A metatheoretical analysis of this field proves it is possible to do so with the use of a tool, which is called here, a dimension of corporeality.

Keywords

EN

Existentialism; Human Body (Philosophy); Philosophical Anthropology; Ontology

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 133-143

Dates

published

2009

Contributors

author

Bielas Jacek

• Jesuit University of Philosophy and Education Ignatianum in Cracow

author

Abramciów Rafał

• Jesuit University of Philosophy and Education Ignatianum in Cracow

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10.5840/forphil200914126

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