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Subjectivity of Embodiment
Subjectivity of Embodiment

Author(s): Karel Novotný
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Contemporary Philosophy, Phenomenology
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Levinas; metaphysical step back; facticity of the body; event still related to subjectivity; limits of phenomenology;

Summary/Abstract: Levinas attempted to go beyond the correlation between life and world by taking a kind of metaphysical step back to the facticity of the body as an event still related to subjectivity. For Levinas, however, the examination of this facticity leads to the limits of phenomenology. In this paper I show that this double movement within and beyond phenomenology may help us to better understand its limits and to learn something about the bodily human condition itself.

  • Issue Year: 4/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 187-195
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English