Das leibliche Selbst

Starting from the mysteriousness of the body, various dimensions of corporeality such as sensation and perception, spatial orientation and movement, spontaneity and habit, as well as expression and language of the body are first developed. The anti-Cartesian design methodically boils down to an interweaving of natural and cultural, of one's own and foreign bodies. This opens up perspectives for a theory of generativity as well as for a polymorphism of the sexual body, beyond naturalism and constructivism. At the end is the prospect of a bodily responsorium and a corresponding ethos of the senses. The lectures draw on Husserl's, Scheler's, Plessner's and especially Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body as well as on Gestalt theory, behavioral research, medical anthropology and pathology. At the same time, Brücken.