“The Absolute Spirit Must also Have a Body”

A Review of the Relation between Epoché and Corporality in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty

Authors

  • Hernán G. Inverso Universidad de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

Phenomenology, reduction, corporeality, pregivenness, world

Abstract

Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology introduced the notion of être au monde, suggesting at first sight a departure from Husserlian notion of phenomenological reduction. In the present article we intend to show that this opinion arise from an interpretation that excludes the developments of Ideas II, where Husserl thematizes the notions of embodiment, natural attitude and “pregivenness”. From this point Merleau-Ponty designs his position without radical breaks. The analysis of the “paradox of corporeal God” in both authors provide additional data indicating the pertinence of this interpretation.

Author Biography

Hernán G. Inverso, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Cursó sus estudios de Licenciatura en Filosofía en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, es becario de esta universidad e integra proyectos de investigación en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, la Universidad Nacional de San Martín y la Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Ha participado en numerosas instancias académicas a través de la presentación de ponencias y ha publicado artículos sobre fenomenología y sobre sus conexiones con tópicos desarrollados en la antigüedad. Ha redactado en colaboración un libro, actualmente en prensa, que comprende la traducción anotada con estudio preliminar del Eutidemo de Platón (Buenos Aires, Losada), donde se enfatizan sus elementos intertextuales. Sus estudios doctorales abarcan aspectos de la fenomenología francesa contemporánea.

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2014-01-15

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G. Inverso, H. . (2014). “The Absolute Spirit Must also Have a Body”: A Review of the Relation between Epoché and Corporality in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Devenires, 15(29), 63–82. Retrieved from https://publicaciones.umich.mx/revistas/devenires/ojs/article/view/368

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