La question du solipsisme somatique. Pragmatisme, soma-esthétique et utopies du corps
Taking as our starting point the problem of “somatic solipsism” as we can formulate it through the pragmatist philosophy of William James, we examine the ways in which Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetic theory is likely to respond to this problem. How does the centrality of the body in experience and...
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| Language: | fra |
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MSH Paris Nord
2024-07-01
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| Series: | Appareil |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/appareil/7683 |
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| Summary: | Taking as our starting point the problem of “somatic solipsism” as we can formulate it through the pragmatist philosophy of William James, we examine the ways in which Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetic theory is likely to respond to this problem. How does the centrality of the body in experience and knowledge shape our relationship with the outside world? In what way is somatic reflexivity not contradictory to this relationship, in the practical and aesthetic fields in particular? Distinguishing the pragmatist self-transcendence of the body from the embodied condition of the transcendental field of consciousness in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, we suggest that the body relates to its outside through the extensive and plastic property of body consciousness (which transforms the “body schema”). These processes can be observed in many types of experience, from meditation to dance, including various psychological and neuroscientific experiments. To this respect, Helmuth Plessner’s theory of “eccentric positionality” offers a relevant epistemological framework to support the idea of a body whose dynamic of eccentricity is immanent to the body itself. |
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| ISSN: | 2101-0714 |