A Life Form is a Lived Body: Toward an Ecological Extension of Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity
Phenomenological approaches to empathy and intersubjectivity have overcome some critical and open issues of traditional representationalist accounts, placing the embodied character of the social encounter at the centre of the debate. At this stage, I suggest that it would be possible and important t...
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2019-12-01
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| author | Beniamino Cianferoni |
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| description | Phenomenological approaches to empathy and intersubjectivity have overcome some critical and open issues of traditional representationalist accounts, placing the embodied character of the social encounter at the centre of the debate. At this stage, I suggest that it would be possible and important to take a further step away from Cartesian vestiges by abandoning the affective and ontological dualism between human beings and other living beings (animals and plants). I argue that phenomenological and enactivist accounts (e.g. that of Thomas Fuchs) based on characteristics such as pre-reflectivity and sensory experience should posit the fundamental level of empathy and intercorporeality as not anthropocentric, but biocentric. To demonstrate my thesis about the presence of an extended embodied intersubjectivity, I investigate Edith Stein's taxonomy of empathy and I point out how life forms are lived bodies that share a mutual empathic space with human beings. In conclusion, I outline a biocentric refinement of the model of intercorporeality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-58f67bb91e044a0fb3f817065220e6652022-12-21T20:28:54ZengAssociazione Culturale Humana.MenteHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies1972-12932019-12-011236A Life Form is a Lived Body: Toward an Ecological Extension of Intercorporeality and InteraffectivityBeniamino Cianferoni0University of FlorencePhenomenological approaches to empathy and intersubjectivity have overcome some critical and open issues of traditional representationalist accounts, placing the embodied character of the social encounter at the centre of the debate. At this stage, I suggest that it would be possible and important to take a further step away from Cartesian vestiges by abandoning the affective and ontological dualism between human beings and other living beings (animals and plants). I argue that phenomenological and enactivist accounts (e.g. that of Thomas Fuchs) based on characteristics such as pre-reflectivity and sensory experience should posit the fundamental level of empathy and intercorporeality as not anthropocentric, but biocentric. To demonstrate my thesis about the presence of an extended embodied intersubjectivity, I investigate Edith Stein's taxonomy of empathy and I point out how life forms are lived bodies that share a mutual empathic space with human beings. In conclusion, I outline a biocentric refinement of the model of intercorporeality.http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/304PhenomenologyIntersubjectivityIntercorporealityEcologicalEdith SteinEmpathy |
| spellingShingle | Beniamino Cianferoni A Life Form is a Lived Body: Toward an Ecological Extension of Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies Phenomenology Intersubjectivity Intercorporeality Ecological Edith Stein Empathy |
| title | A Life Form is a Lived Body: Toward an Ecological Extension of Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity |
| title_full | A Life Form is a Lived Body: Toward an Ecological Extension of Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity |
| title_fullStr | A Life Form is a Lived Body: Toward an Ecological Extension of Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Life Form is a Lived Body: Toward an Ecological Extension of Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity |
| title_short | A Life Form is a Lived Body: Toward an Ecological Extension of Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity |
| title_sort | life form is a lived body toward an ecological extension of intercorporeality and interaffectivity |
| topic | Phenomenology Intersubjectivity Intercorporeality Ecological Edith Stein Empathy |
| url | http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/304 |
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