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Flesh and Body , originally released in French in 1981, is a pioneering study that provides both a close reading of Husserl's phenomenology of relationship between flesh and body as well as Didier Franck's own highly original account of flesh. Husserl's work on the body influenced many phenomenologists, including Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Henry, and Levinas, to name just a few. But his work was often misunderstood. Franck thus guides the reader carefully through Husserl's multi-layered and complex observations about the notions of on the flesh and the body. Franck shows that the flesh is never entirely one's own, instead it is always situated in relation to a prior alterity, principally the other ego. This book is thus a vital contribution to current debates over the themes of embodiment, temporality and intersubjectivity.
List of contents
Translator's Introduction, Joseph Rivera
Introduction
1. Self-Givenness and Incarnate Givenness
2. Science as Egology
3. Flesh and Body in Perception
4. Constitutive Analysis
5. Eidetic Reduction and Archi-facticity
6. Phenomenological Idealism
7. The Objection of Solipsism
8. Flesh and Ownness
9. Flesh, Ego, Psyche
10. The Alteration of Ownness
11. The Incarnation of Another Body
12. Pairing and Resemblance
13. Here and There
14. The Dynamic of the Apperceptive Transfer
15. Caress and Impact
16. The Problem of Time
17. Flesh and Time
Notes
Index
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It is a signal event in English-language phenomenology to have Didier Franck's Flesh and Body available in English. With characteristic clarity, rigor and acuity, Franck explores Husserl's phenomenology of the body, its reliance on inter-subjectivity, and the roles that time plays in considerations of our flesh, our bodies, and the bodies of others. Kevin Hart, Edwin B Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of Virginia, USA 20140311
