Heidegger’s phenomenology of embodiment in the Zollikon Seminars

Abstract

In this article, I focus on the problem of body as it is developed in Heidegger's Zollikon Seminars, in contrast with its enigmatic concealment in Being and Time. In the first part, I emphasize the implicit connection of Heidegger's approach of body with Husserl's problematic of Leib and Ko ¨rper, and with his phenomenological analyses of tactility. In the second part, I focus on Heidegger's distinction between the limits of the lived body and the limits of the corresponding corporeal thing, opening to an ontological understanding of the ecstatic bodying forth of the body. In the third part, I analyse this ecstatic bodiliness in relation to the problem of spatiality, exploring the tension between the here and the over there in the experience of the embodiment. Heidegger not only refuses to understand the space starting from the here of the body, but he also refuses to understand the body starting from the here of the space. Thus, there are two interconnected inversions that Heidegger operates in relation to Husserl: In the topic of spatiality, he rejects the pre-eminence of the here; in relation to the body, he contests the primacy of tactility. Finally, the conclusion stresses that, even if the bodying forth penetrates almost all behaviour of Dasein in the world, there is however a limit of embodiment, an unreachable frontier beyond any possibility of the bodying forth, namely the understanding of being. This also implies that the problem of body needs be understood in the context of the ontological difference.

Phenomenology of Gesture Between Heidegger and Flusser

“… 5 As I have shown elsewhere (Ciocan, 2015, pp. 475–477), the question of gesture also appears in a context where Heidegger discusses with Medard Boss the relation between embodiment ( das Leiben des Leibes ) and the understanding of Being ( Seinsverständnis ), namely in a fragment where Heidegger gives the example of the ‘gesture of pointing’ ( Gebärde der Hinzeigens ) a window crossbar (Heidegger, 1987, pp.…”

En torno a los gestos corporales y la mano en dos elaboraciones de Heidegger (1927-1959)

“…2 La crítica de pensadores franceses respecto de la omisión de una tematización apropiada del cuerpo en SuZ tiene entre sus primeros exponentes a Sartre 1943, De Waelhens 1949, 1950 y Merleau-Ponty en su Phénoménologie de la Perception (PP).Al respecto, véase Sartre 1943: 423 y De Waelhens 1949: V-XV. 3 Del conjunto de investigaciones recientes en torno a estas discusiones y antecedentes, consideramos aquí los trabajos de : Caron 2008;Aho 2009;Ciocan 2015;Johnson 2016;Peters 2019, entre otros. 4 Véase Derrida 1985: 495-534;Derrida, 2011: 199-264 El siguiente trabajo retoma estas vías de investigación para continuar con el despliegue de los abordajes y perspectivas que pueden analizarse desde aquellas dilucidaciones en torno a la corporalidad en dos tramos de la obra de Heidegger.…”