The Question of the Living Body in Heidegger's Analytic of Dasein

Author: Ciocan, Cristian

Source: Research in Phenomenology, Volume 38, Number 1, 2008 , pp. 72-89(18)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

The purpose of this article is to analyze the significance of the absence of the problem of living body in Heidegger's analytic of Dasein. In order to evaluate the occurrences of the problem of the body in Being and Time, I also refer to the context of some of Heidegger's later work where there is to be found a sketch of an ontological investigation of the living body. I analyze then in detail the scarce occurrences of body in the fundamental ontology, showing finally that the lack of a proper phenomenological examination of living body generates a series of conceptual difficulties for the problem of Dasein's death, precisely when the issue of dead body is at stake.

Keywords: HEIDEGGER; BODY; LIFE; ANIMAL; ONTOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGY

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916408X262811

Affiliations: 1: University of Bucharest

Publication date: 2008-01-01