Karl-Siegbert Rehberg
Self-reference and Sociality
The Differentiation of “Perceived Body” and “Corpus” in Philosophical Anthropology*
I.Philosophical Anthropology and its initial questions
In April 2012, when I participated in the previous conference “Life Configurations”, I spoke about the school of thought called “Philosophical Anthropology”50, which in its modern form was established in Germany around 1920. On that occasion I only mentioned briefly one of its pivotal problems which I am going to elaborate on today.
My focus lies on the difference between “corpus” or “physical” respectively “objective” body (in German: Körper) and “perceived body”, often called “lived” or “subjective” body (in German: Leib). As you see the German language ...
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