Open AccessDimensions of Corporeality. A Metatheoretical Analysis of Anthropologists' Concern with the Human Body
Author(s) -
Jacek Bielas,
Rafał Abramciów
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
forum philosophicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-7043
pISSN - 1426-1898
DOI - 10.35765/forphil.2009.1401.10
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , human body , subject (documents) , epistemology , character (mathematics) , field (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , philosophical anthropology , order (exchange) , dimension (graph theory) , sociology , subject matter , mind–body problem , philosophy , history , computer science , mathematics , pedagogy , geometry , archaeology , finance , artificial intelligence , library science , pure mathematics , economics , curriculum
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.