DENKEN in KÖRPERn

The book sees itself as the foundation of a philosophy of dance, at the center of which are more general considerations on the genesis of meaning in the sensual as well as on the theory of the subject, and in which, in particular, the meaning of philosophy itself is reflected upon. Dance - unlike painting or music, for example - has so far received little philosophical attention. The study attempts to get to the bottom of the questions why this is so and whether a philosophy is not conceivable that is able to do justice to the phenomenon of dance. Starting with René Descartes, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry, and Jean-Luc Nancy are examined to determine how the relationships between body and thought, body and consciousness, sensuality and sense, materiality and ideality, and art and philosophy are to be understood. With Merleau-Ponty in particular.