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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life
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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life

by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta
August 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
259 pages
8h 43m
English
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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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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