Intercorporeality and Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenological Exploration of Embodiment
Intercorporeality and Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenological Exploration of Embodiment
In this paper I explore the connections, especially in the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, between the phenomenological concepts of embodiment and intercorporeality in relation to their role in the constitution of intersubjective sociality and, more generally, culture. From its origins at the outset of the twentieth century to the present, phenomenology has led the way not only in exploring the first-person experience of lived embodiment (Leiblichkeit), but also in the first- and second person plural experience of “intertwining” (Verflechtung, l’interlacs) and “intercorporeality” (intercorporéité), the latter being a concept that is found in a few scattered places in Merleau-Ponty’s later writings but which is first elaborated—although not in name—by Husserl and later Sartre. In this paper I examine how embodiment and intercorporeal intertwining are necessary steps in the constitution of culture.
Keywords: Phenomenology, Embodiment, Intercorporeality, Intersubjectivity, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty
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