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Resemblance of bodies. Which is prolongation of which?

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of the phenomenological concept of corporeality in the context of some texts of E. Husserl and M. Merleau-Ponty. The role of corporeality is shown when we try to understand our ability to conceive the Otherness in our solipsistic experience. The article reveals that the phenomenological description of the body has a central position when we try to understand such concepts as intersubjectivity, empathy, relation between man and the World, ethical responsibility, etc. The author analyses how the phenomenological conception of the body differs from the traditional conception of the body as a simple object. The study opens new perspectives for phenomenological investigations of intercorporeality, the resemblance of bodies, the prolongation of the body. Finally, in the context of the latest book of M. Merleau-Ponty, author asks if corporeality is a primordial givenness of our consciousness, or maybe the body itself is the expression of the Being. Such perspective gives us the possibility to understand the way how we are interwoven into each other through the body, and also the way how we are interwoven into our World.

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