The Bodily Dimension In Thinking (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

"Daniela Vallega-Neu questions the ontological meaning of body and thinking by carefully taking into account how we come to experience thought bodily. She engages six prominent figures of the Western philosophical tradition - Plato, Nietzsche, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Foucault - and considers how they understand thinking to occur in relation to the body as well as how their thinking is itself bodily. Through a deconstructive and performative reading, she explores how their thinking reveals a bodily dimension that is prior to what classical metaphysics comes to conceive as mind-body duality. Thus, Vallega-Neu uncovers the bodily dimension that sustains their thought and their work. As she contends, the trace of the body in our thought not only exposes the strangers we are to ourselves, but may also lead to a new understanding of how we come to be who we are in relation to the world we live in."--Jacket The Bodily Dimensionin Thinking......Page 4 Contents......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 At the Limits of Metaphysics......Page 22 1. On the Origin of the Difference of Psyche and Soma in Plato’s Timaeus......Page 24 a. The Broken Frame of Timaeus’ Speech......Page 26 b. The Demiurge and the “Nurse of all Becoming”......Page 27 c. The Creation of the Psyche of the Cosmos......Page 29 d. Human Legein......Page 34 e. The Genesis of Sameness in an Eternal Return......Page 37 f. Conclusion......Page 39 2. The Return of the Body in Exile: Nietzsche......Page 42 a. Overturning Platonism......Page 45 b. The Trace of the Body......Page 48 c. The Historicality of Nietzsche’s Thought......Page 52 d. Transformations of Bodies......Page 56 e. Conclusion......Page 58 PART TWO: At the Limits of Phenomenology: Two Phenomenological Accounts of the Body......Page 60 3. Driven Spirit: The Body in Max Scheler’s Phenomenology......Page 64 a. The Phenomenological Attitude......Page 65 b. The Lived Body as Analyzer of Inner and Outer Perception......Page 68 c. Spirit and Life......Page 73 d. The Mutual Penetration of Life and Spirit......Page 77 e. Conclusion......Page 78 4. Thinking in the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible......Page 80 a. Re-flecting Primitive Being......Page 81 b. The Archetype of Perception: Body and Things......Page 85 c. Recoiling Flesh and the Genesis of Perception......Page 89 d. The Negative Opening of Intercorporeal Being......Page 91 e. The Invisible: Ideas of the Flesh......Page 94 f. Conclusion......Page 97 PART THREE: Exposed Bodies......Page 100 5. Bodily Being-T/here: The Question of the Body in the Horizon of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy......Page 104 a. From the Thinking of Being and Time to that of Contributions......Page 106 b. Thinking Be-ing in Reservedness......Page 108 c. Sheltering the Truth of Be-ing in Beings......Page 111 a. The Role of the Body in the Sheltering of the Truth of Be-ing......Page 115 b. The Corporeal Dimension of Being-T/here......Page 117 c. Bodily Thinking with and beyond Heidegger......Page 120 6. Exorbitant Gazes: On Foucault’s Genealogies of Bodies......Page 124 a. Foucault as Thinker from the Outside......Page 125 b. Genealogy......Page 127 c. Bodies as Sites of Power-Knowledge Relations......Page 130 d. The Outside of Power-Knowledge Relations......Page 134 e. Bodies as Sites of Care of the Self......Page 137 f. Conclusion......Page 140 Concluding Prelude......Page 142 1. On the Origin of the Difference of Psyche and Soma in Plato’s Timaeus......Page 150 2. The Return of the Body in Exile: Nietzsche......Page 156 3. Driven Spirit: The Body in Max Scheler’s Phenomenology......Page 160 4. Thinking in the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s......Page 164 5. Bodily Being-T/here: The Question of Body in the Horizon of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy......Page 169 6. Exorbitant Gazes: On Foucault’s Genealogies of Bodies......Page 173 Concluding Prelude......Page 175 D......Page 176 R......Page 177 W......Page 178 The Bodily Dimensionin Thinking 4 Contents 10 Preface 12 Introduction 14 PART ONE: At the Limits of Metaphysics 22 At the Limits of Metaphysics 22 1. On the Origin of the Difference of Psyche and Soma in Plato’s Timaeus 24 a. The Broken Frame of Timaeus’ Speech 26 b. The Demiurge and the “Nurse of all Becoming” 27 c. The Creation of the Psyche of the Cosmos 29 d. Human Legein 34 e. The Genesis of Sameness in an Eternal Return 37 f. Conclusion 39 2. The Return of the Body in Exile: Nietzsche 42 a. Overturning Platonism 45 b. The Trace of the Body 48 c. The Historicality of Nietzsche’s Thought 52 d. Transformations of Bodies 56 e. Conclusion 58 PART TWO: At the Limits of Phenomenology: Two Phenomenological Accounts of the Body 60 3. Driven Spirit: The Body in Max Scheler’s Phenomenology 64 a. The Phenomenological Attitude 65 b. The Lived Body as Analyzer of Inner and Outer Perception 68 c. Spirit and Life 73 d. The Mutual Penetration of Life and Spirit 77 e. Conclusion 78 4. Thinking in the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible 80 a. Re-flecting Primitive Being 81 b. The Archetype of Perception: Body and Things 85 c. Recoiling Flesh and the Genesis of Perception 89 d. The Negative Opening of Intercorporeal Being 91 e. The Invisible: Ideas of the Flesh 94 f. Conclusion 97 PART THREE: Exposed Bodies 100 5. Bodily Being-T/here: The Question of the Body in the Horizon of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy 104 I. BEING AND BEINGS 106 a. From the Thinking of Being and Time to that of Contributions 106 b. Thinking Be-ing in Reservedness 108 c. Sheltering the Truth of Be-ing in Beings 111 II. BEING AND BODY 115 a. The Role of the Body in the Sheltering of the Truth of Be-ing 115 b. The Corporeal Dimension of Being-T/here 117 c. Bodily Thinking with and beyond Heidegger 120 6. Exorbitant Gazes: On Foucault’s Genealogies of Bodies 124 a. Foucault as Thinker from the Outside 125 b. Genealogy 127 c. Bodies as Sites of Power-Knowledge Relations 130 d. The Outside of Power-Knowledge Relations 134 e. Bodies as Sites of Care of the Self 137 f. Conclusion 140 Concluding Prelude 142 Notes 150 Introduction 150 1. On the Origin of the Difference of Psyche and Soma in Plato’s Timaeus 150 2. The Return of the Body in Exile: Nietzsche 156 3. Driven Spirit: The Body in Max Scheler’s Phenomenology 160 4. Thinking in the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s 164 5. Bodily Being-T/here: The Question of Body in the Horizon of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy 169 6. Exorbitant Gazes: On Foucault’s Genealogies of Bodies 173 Concluding Prelude 175 Index 176 A 176 B 176 C 176 D 176 E 177 F 177 G 177 H 177 I 177 K 177 L 177 M 177 N 177 O 177 P 177 R 177 S 178 T 178 U 178 V 178 W 178 Daniela Vallega-neu. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 129-154) And Index.