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Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Body (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975)
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Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Body (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975)
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THE SEEMING CONTINGENCY OF THE QUESTION CONCERNING THE BODY AND THE
NECESSITY FOR AN ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BODY When we disclose
and bring forth, within ontological investigations aimed at making
possible the elaboration of a phenomenology of the ego, a prob
lematic concerning the body, we may well seem, with respect to the
general direction of our analysis, to elaborate only a contingent
and accidental specification of such an analysis and to forget its
true goal.! Up to the present, we pursued the clarification of the
being of the ego [2] on the level of absolute subjectivity and in
the form of an ontological analysis. Is it not possible that the
reasons which motivated the project of conducting the
investigations relative to the problem of the ego within a sphere
of abso lute immanence may cease to be valid because we might be
led to believe that the body also constitutes the object of these
investigations and belongs to a first reality whose study is the
task of fundamental ontology? Actually, does not the body present
itself to us as a transcendent being, as an inhabi tant of this
world of ours wherein subjectivity does not reside? If, con
sequently, the body must constitute the theme of our philosophical
reflec tion, is it not on condition that the latter submit to a
radical modification and cease to be turned toward subjectivity in
order to be a reflection on
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