Epub phenomenology and embodiment pdf

At the dawn of the modern era philosophers reinterpreted their subject as the study of consciousness pushing the body to the margins of philosophy With the arrival of Husserlian thought in the late nineteenth century the body was once again understood to be part of the transcendental field And yet despite the enormous influence of Husserl s phenomenology the role of embodiment in the broader philosophical landscape remains largely unresolved In his ambitious debut book Phenomenology and Embodiment Joona Taipale tackles the Husserlian concept also engaging the thought of Maurice Merleau Ponty Jean Paul Sartre and Michel Henry with a comprehensive and systematic phenomenological investigation into the role of embodiment in the constitution of self awareness intersubjectivity and objective reality In doing so he contributes a detailed clarification of the fundamental constitutive role of embodiment in the basic relations of subjectivity Phenomenology and Embodiment Husserl and the Constitution of Subjectivity Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Dynamite stuff from Taipale English