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

Authors

  • Cruz Elena Espinal Pérez Universidad EAFIT

Keywords:

Meleau-Ponty, phenomenal body, perception, subject of perception, temporality, being-in-the-world, phenomenology, intentionality, subjectivity, experience

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

  • Cruz Elena Espinal Pérez, Universidad EAFIT
    Ph.D. en Filosofía, Universidad de Paris VIII, Francia. Ph.D. en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Profesora titular, Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín-Colombia.

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Co-herencia Vol. 8 No. 15, 2011

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2012-05-18

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Vol. 8 No. 15 (2011)

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Espinal Pérez, C. E. (2012). Body: an ambiguous sort of being. Approach toward philosophy of body in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. Co-herencia, 8(15), 187-217. https://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/co-herencia/article/view/610