Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness

pp. 43-57

in: Bernhard Waldenfels, Phenomenology of the alien, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 2011

Abstract

Corporeality and alienness are intimately connected. Alienness presents itself in the flesh, as absence in flesh and bone (absence en chair et en os) in the formulation of Sartre, which alludes to Husserl’s presence in the flesh [leibhaftige Gegenwart] of the perceived object. In turn, a corporeal being is never entirely present to itself.