1st Edition

Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

By Tonino Griffero Copyright 2024
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body ( Leib ) and the physical body ( Körper ), tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thoughts and articulating a theory of the lived body that draws on the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz. An explanation of our being-in-the-world in terms of a... Read more

Foreword

Chapter. 1: What is this "thing" called lived body?

Chapter 2: "Being” and/or “having” a body

Chapter 3: The self-affection of the invisible-pathic body

Conclusion (to be continued…)

Bibliography

Biography

Tonino Griffero is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy. In the past decade, he has authored Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces (Routledge), Quasi-Things: The Paradigm of Atmospheres (Suny), Places, Affordances, Atmospheres: A Pathic Aesthetics (Routledge), and The Atmospheric 'We': Moods and Collective Feelings (Mimesis International).