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Abstract:
The Question of Spatiality and Embodiment in Being and Time – A Critical Approach. This article discusses the questions of Dasein’s spatiality and embodiment in Heidegger’s Being and Time and argues that Heidegger’s account of the body remains – in a significant way – indebted to the same Cartesian tradition he is trying to overcome. The paragraphs were he discusses the spatiality of Dasein, and the modaes of being of the dead body are riddled with difficulties and inconsistencies. The concept of nearness (Nähe) or that of de-severance (Ent-fernung) tend to lose their spatial meaning, while the spatiality of Dasein faces the risk of being understood solely through the concept of significance and to evaporate. The objection that the question of the body wasn’t a central question in Heidegger’s search of the meaning of being, can be put aside by the fact that the whole ontological realm of equipment is define by a set of concepts (i.e. Zu-handene, Vor-handene) which have a direct connection to the body (to the hand). In the second part of my paper I will try to sketch a new perspective on the problem of embodiment. Following some of Heidegger’s insights into the question of body, which can be found especially in Metaphysische Anfangsgrunde der Logik im Ausgang von Leibniz, I will try to argue that the radical experience of physical pain, which reduces one to his body, can function as a new point of departure for understanding the question of embodiment.
Keywords: Dasein, embodiment, spatiality, nearness, de-severance.
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