The Bodily Dimension In Thinking (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

The Bodily Dimensionin Thinking......Page 4
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
At the Limits of Metaphysics......Page 22
1. On the Origin of the Difference of Psyche and Soma in Plato’s Timaeus......Page 24
a. The Broken Frame of Timaeus’ Speech......Page 26
b. The Demiurge and the “Nurse of all Becoming”......Page 27
c. The Creation of the Psyche of the Cosmos......Page 29
d. Human Legein......Page 34
e. The Genesis of Sameness in an Eternal Return......Page 37
f. Conclusion......Page 39
2. The Return of the Body in Exile: Nietzsche......Page 42
a. Overturning Platonism......Page 45
b. The Trace of the Body......Page 48
c. The Historicality of Nietzsche’s Thought......Page 52
d. Transformations of Bodies......Page 56
e. Conclusion......Page 58
PART TWO: At the Limits of Phenomenology: Two Phenomenological Accounts of the Body......Page 60
3. Driven Spirit: The Body in Max Scheler’s Phenomenology......Page 64
a. The Phenomenological Attitude......Page 65
b. The Lived Body as Analyzer of Inner and Outer Perception......Page 68
c. Spirit and Life......Page 73
d. The Mutual Penetration of Life and Spirit......Page 77
e. Conclusion......Page 78
4. Thinking in the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible......Page 80
a. Re-flecting Primitive Being......Page 81
b. The Archetype of Perception: Body and Things......Page 85
c. Recoiling Flesh and the Genesis of Perception......Page 89
d. The Negative Opening of Intercorporeal Being......Page 91
e. The Invisible: Ideas of the Flesh......Page 94
f. Conclusion......Page 97
PART THREE: Exposed Bodies......Page 100
5. Bodily Being-T/here: The Question of the Body in the Horizon of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy......Page 104
a. From the Thinking of Being and Time to that of Contributions......Page 106
b. Thinking Be-ing in Reservedness......Page 108
c. Sheltering the Truth of Be-ing in Beings......Page 111
a. The Role of the Body in the Sheltering of the Truth of Be-ing......Page 115
b. The Corporeal Dimension of Being-T/here......Page 117
c. Bodily Thinking with and beyond Heidegger......Page 120
6. Exorbitant Gazes: On Foucault’s Genealogies of Bodies......Page 124
a. Foucault as Thinker from the Outside......Page 125
b. Genealogy......Page 127
c. Bodies as Sites of Power-Knowledge Relations......Page 130
d. The Outside of Power-Knowledge Relations......Page 134
e. Bodies as Sites of Care of the Self......Page 137
f. Conclusion......Page 140
Concluding Prelude......Page 142
1. On the Origin of the Difference of Psyche and Soma in Plato’s Timaeus......Page 150
2. The Return of the Body in Exile: Nietzsche......Page 156
3. Driven Spirit: The Body in Max Scheler’s Phenomenology......Page 160
4. Thinking in the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s......Page 164
5. Bodily Being-T/here: The Question of Body in the Horizon of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy......Page 169
6. Exorbitant Gazes: On Foucault’s Genealogies of Bodies......Page 173
Concluding Prelude......Page 175
D......Page 176
R......Page 177
W......Page 178