Flesh and Body : On the Phenomenology of Husserl

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Self-givenness And Incarnate Givenness -- Science As Egology -- Flesh And Body In Perception -- Constitutive Analysis -- Eidetic Reduction And Archi-facticity -- Phenomenological Idealism -- The Objection Of Solipsism -- Flesh And The Sphere Of Ownness -- Flesh, Ego, Psyche -- The Alteration Of Ownness -- The Incarnation Of Another Body -- Pairing And Resemblance -- Here And There -- The Dynamic Of The Apperceptive Transfer -- Caress And Impact -- The Problem Of Time -- Flesh And Time. Didier Franck ; Translated By Joseph Rivera, Scott Davidson. Translated From The French. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.