SARTRE ON BODILY TRANSPARENCY

Abstract Sartre’s obscure but evocative remarks on bodily awareness have often been cited, but, I argue, they have rarely been understood. This paper aims to bring the connection between Sartre's views on bodily awareness and his more general distinction between “positional” and “non-positional” consciousness. Sartre’s main claim about bodily awareness, I argue, is that our primary awareness of our own bodies is a form of non-positional consciousness. I show that he is right about this, and right to think that recognizing this point is crucial to understanding what it is for something to be my body.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: BOYLE,MATTHEW
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência 2018
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-60452018000400033
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