The middle body. A Phenomenological approach

Abstract

The present text seeks to synthesize ten major theses that account for the multiple levels of experience about the body. The origin of these considerations is radically philosophical and its consequences affect both the general scope of the arts and the very statute of philosophy. Phenomenology is the main theoretical landmark of reference. The propositions are presented as a practical resource to broaden the reflection on the thought and the extension on the lived body, the spatiality and the spatialization. Distinction, separation, distance, interiority, exteriority, the experience of the inner body (Leib) and the external body (Körper) and the levels of spatiality will be some of the critical issues discussed. The phenomenological distinction between Phantasia and imagination will be the key to thinking about the unfolding of subjectivity and the body after the phenomenological reduction. We propose here to think of the register of an intermediate body or of a medium subjectivity, which corresponds to the level of perceptual Phantasias, and whose income is both aesthetic and ethical, developed by phenomenological philosophy.