The Bodily Dimension in Thinking

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Contents  Preface xi Introduction xiii Part One. At the Limits of Metaphysics 1 Chapter One. On the Origin of the Difference of Psyche and Soma in Plato’s Timaeus 3 a. The Broken Frame of Timaeus’ Speech 5 b. The Demiurge and the “Nurse of all Becoming” 6 c. The Creation of the Psyche of the Cosmos 8 d. Human Legein 13 e. The Genesis of Sameness in an Eternal Return 16 f. Conclusion 18 Chapter Two. The Return of the Body in Exile: Nietzsche 21 a. Overturning Platonism 24 b. The Trace of the Body 27 c. The Historicality of Nietzsche’s Thought 31 d. Transformations of Bodies 35 e. Conclusion 37 Part Two. At the Limits of Phenomenology: Two Phenomenological Accounts of the Body 39 ChapterThree. Driven Spirit:The Body in Max Scheler’s Phenomenology 43 a. The Phenomenological Attitude 44 b. The Lived Body as Analyzer of Inner and Outer Perception 47 c. Spirit and Life 52 d. The Mutual Penetration of Life and Spirit 56 e. Conclusion 57 Chapter Four. Thinking in the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible 59 a. Re-flecting Primitive Being 60 b. The Archetype of Perception: Body and Things 64 c. Recoiling Flesh and the Genesis of Perception 68 d. The Negative Opening of Intercorporeal Being 70 e. The Invisible: Ideas of the Flesh 73 f. Conclusion 76 Part Three. Exposed Bodies 79 Chapter Five. Bodily Being-T/here: The Question of the Body in the Horizon of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy 83 I. BEING AND BEINGS 85 a. From the Thinking of Being and Time to that of Contributions 85 b. Thinking Be-ing in Reservedness 87 c. Sheltering the Truth of Be-ing in Beings 90 II. BEING AND BODY 94 a. The Role of the Body in the Sheltering of the Truth of Be-ing 94 b. The Corporeal Dimension of Being-T/here 96 c. Bodily Thinking with and beyond Heidegger 99 Chapter Six. Exorbitant Gazes: On Foucault’s Genealogies of Bodies 103 a. Foucault as Thinker from the Outside 104 b. Genealogy 106 c. Bodies as Sites of Power-Knowledge Relations 109 d. The Outside of Power-Knowledge Relations 113 e. Bodies as Sites of Care of the Self 116 f. Conclusion 119 Concluding Prelude 121 Notes 129 Index 155 x Contents ...