Responsive Embodiment Seen from Merleau-Ponty´s Phenomenology and its Expression in Painting [Spanish]

Authors

  • Graciela Ralón de Walton Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Abstract

Following Merleau-Ponty´s inspiration, B. Waldenfels deals with embodiment emphasizing its responsive dimension, i.e., modes of bodily behavior and experience that respond to interpellations of the strange. From this view, the article aims to ex­plaining the intertwining of body and nature with the intention of showing that nature, understood as another side of human being, implies an alterity that cannot be reduced to the logic of intentionality nor to the logic of communication.

The interpellation that arises from Nature (Anspruch) has, on the one hand, the meaning of appeal (Appel) in the sense of an address (Ansprache) to somebody, and, on the other, of pretention (Prätention) as an interpellation to something. Based on these presuppositions, the second part of the article tries to show how, by means of painting, a responsive action is set in motion. The features of singularity, unavoidable­ness, subsequence, asymmetry, and innovation that characterize the logic of the answer guiding this action.

Author Biography

Graciela Ralón de Walton, Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Doctora en Filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Profesora en la Universidad de San Martín, donde lleva a cabo tareas docentes y de investigación desde 1997 hasta la actualidad.

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Published

2017-11-20

Issue

No. 28 (2018): January-June 2018

Section

Dossier: Figures of Otherness

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