The Intercorporeal Self

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Situation and the Embodied Mind 11 I. Mind, Self, World 11 Representation 13 Behavior 15 Situated Cognition 19 II. Perception 22 Sensation 22 Spatiality 28 III. Situated Subjectivity 34 Chapter 2: Making Space 39 I. Subjectivity, Sensation, and Depth 39 Affordance Depth 46 Spectral Depth 48 Spatial ‘Levels’ 54 Time, Space, and Sensation 55 The Depth of the Past 65 II. Learning 66 Chapter 3: Subjectivity and the ‘Style’ of the World 79 I. The ‘Subject’ and the ‘World’ of Situated Cognition 79 Sensorimotor Laws 80 Sensorimotor Subjectivity 85 Ecological Laws 88 Ecological Subjectivity 90 II. Perception and Subjectivity beyond Metaphysics 94 viii CONTENTS Chapter 4: Auto-affection and Alterity 113 I. Presence 113 The ‘Privilege’ of the Present 118 Auto-affection 125 II. The Deconstruction of Presence 128 Derrida’s Appraisal of Husserl’s Phenomenology 128 Derrida on the Lived Body (‘Leib’; ‘le corps propre’) 133 Derrida’s Deconstruction of ‘Intercorporeity’ 139 III. Auto-hetero-affection in Merleau-Ponty 141 Intercorporeity and Intersubjectivity 141 Body Schema 148 Auto-hetero-affection as the Advent of the Intercorporeal Body 155 Chapter 5: Ipseity and Language 165 I. Language and Gesture 165 The Tacit Cogito 169 Perceptual Meaning and Natural Expression 172 The Paradox of Expression 176 Institution 179 II. Diacritical Intercorporeity 181 III. Expression and Subjectivity 187 Conclusion 193 Notes 203 Bibliography 227 Index 235 ...