Flesh and Body: On the Phenomenology of Husserl

by Didier Franck, Joseph Rivera (Translator), Scott Davidson (Translator)

Overview

Flesh and Body, originally released in French in 1981, is a pioneering study that provides both a close reading of Husserl's phenomenology of relationship between flesh and body as well as Didier Franck's own highly original account of flesh.

Husserl's work on the body influenced many phenomenologists, including Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Henry, and Levinas, to name just a few. But his work was often misunderstood. Franck thus guides the reader carefully through Husserl's multi-layered and complex observations about the notions of on the flesh and the body. Franck shows that the flesh is never entirely one's own, instead it is always situated in relation to a prior alterity, principally the other ego. This book is thus a vital contribution to current debates over the themes of embodiment, temporality and intersubjectivity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441101907
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/19/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	366 KB

About the Author

Didier Franck is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, France.

Joseph Rivera is a Lecturer in Systematic Theology at the Mater Dei Institute of Education, a College of Dublin City University, Ireland. He is the author of several articles on phenomenology and theology.

Scott Davidson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma City University, USA. He is the translator of Michel Henry's works: Material Phenomenology (2008) and Seeing the Invisible (Continuum, 2009).
Didier Franck is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, France.
Joseph Rivera is a PhD candidate in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Scott Davidson is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma City University, USA. He is the translator of Michel Henry's works: Material Phenomenology (2008), Seeing the Invisible (2009), and Barbarism (2012).

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction, Joseph Rivera
Introduction
1. Self-Givenness and Incarnate Givenness
2. Science as Egology
3. Flesh and Body in Perception
4. Constitutive Analysis
5. Eidetic Reduction and Archi-facticity
6. Phenomenological Idealism
7. The Objection of Solipsism
8. Flesh and Ownness
9. Flesh, Ego, Psyche
10. The Alteration of Ownness
11. The Incarnation of Another Body
12. Pairing and Resemblance
13. Here and There
14. The Dynamic of the Apperceptive Transfer
15. Caress and Impact
16. The Problem of Time
17. Flesh and Time
Notes
Index