Surplus and Exceedance of the Lived Body with Respect to the Body Schema in Merleau-Ponty´s Phenomenology [Spanish]

Authors

  • Esteban Andrés García Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA-Argentina) / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET-Argentina)

Keywords:

Phenomenology, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Corporeality, Spatiality, Dance, Butler, Levinas, Lingis, Caillois

Abstract

This paper intends to examine some of the limitations of the well-known Merleau- Pontian account of the lived body in terms of "body schema" and "habitual body", by taking into account some alternative references of the philosopher’s textual corpus to certain dimensions of corporeal experience that exceed such frames. After analyzing these former definitions that outline the profile of a skillful and competent body co­rrelative of a pragmatic environment (1), we consider cases of non-teleological and non-functional behaviors and non-objective and non-instrumental spatialities (2) to end up by showing the relationship between these analyses and the wider Merleau-Pontian account of the natural horizons of experience (3). Secondarily, we evaluate critiques such as A. Lingis’ and J. Butler’s aiming to certain deficits of Merleau-Pontian theses, and we identify certain relations that these theses hold with philosophical developments showing certain specific affinities, such as E. Levinas’ and R. Caillois’.

Author Biography

Esteban Andrés García, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA-Argentina) / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET-Argentina)

Doctor en Filosofía (Universidad de Buenos Aires) / Profesor Adjunto a cargo de la cátedra de Gnoseología (carrera de Filosofía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires) / Investigaador Adjunto en el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET-Argentina)

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2017-11-20

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