Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, and the question of Dasein's embodiment: An ethics of touch and spacing

Philosophy Today

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 216-230

  Sorial, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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References (33)

1. Jean-Luc Nancy, "Corpus," in The Birth to Presence, trans. Brian Holmes et al. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), 190. Cited as Corpus
2. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarie and Edward Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1962). Hereafter cited as BT
3. John Caputo, Demythologising Heidegger (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 125
4. See Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology, trans. Hazel E. Barnes (London: Methuen, 1957), 323
5. Emmanuel Levinas, Existence and Existents, trans. Alphonso Lingis (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1978), 97
6. See Tina Chanter, Time, Death and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), for a critique of Heidegger's alleged disavowal of the body and its implications for feminist theory
7. Patricia Huntington, Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia and Recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger and Irigaray (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998)
8. See Caputo, Demythologising Heidegger, 129
9. For a detailed account of the inadequacies of what constitutes a "discourse on the body," see David Michael Levin, "The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment: Heidegger's Thinking of Being," in Welton Donn, ed., The Body: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999), 125
10. For other interpretations of Heidegger's alleged neglect of Dasein's embodiment see Seamus Carey, "Cultivating Ethos through the Body," Human Studies 23 (2000): 29-33
11. and "Embodying Original Ethics: A Response to the Levinasian Critique of Heidegger," Philosophy Today 41 (1995): 449-51. Carey develops Heidegger's account of embodiment through the work of Merleau-Ponty
12. Also see Richard R. Askay, "Heidegger, the Body, and the French philosophers," Continental Philosophy Review 32 (1999): 32-33
13. See Rosalyn Diprose, "The Hand that Writes Community in Blood," Cultural Studies Review 9 (2003): 44-48, for a further discussion on the question of embodiment and community in Jean-Luc Nancy's work
14. See both Levin, "The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment: Heidegger's Thinking of Being," and David Farrell Krell, Archeticture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997)
15. Being and Time, 23
16. Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche, Vol. 1, The Will to Power as Art, trans. David Farrell Krell (New York: Harper and Row, 1997), 209
17. Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism," in Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (London: Routledge, 2000), 228
18. See Krell Archeticture, 4
19. Martin Heidegger, Zollikon Seminars: Protocols, Conversations, Letters, ed. Medard Boss (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001), 117
20. Heidegger, Nietzsche, 98-99
21. Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural, trans. Robert D. Richardson and Anne E. O'Byrne (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000). Hereafter cited as BSP
22. See Diprose, "The Hand that Writes Community in Blood."
23. Georges van den Abbeele, "Singular Remarks," Paragraph 16:2 (1993): 184
24. See Gary Shapiro, "Jean-Luc Nancy and the Corpus of Philosophy," in Thinking Bodies, ed. Juliet Flower MacCannell & Laura Zakarin (Stanford California: Stanford University Press, 1994), 53-54
25. Jacques Derrida, "Le toucher Touch/to touch him," Paragraph 16:2 (1993): 132
26. Thirty-seven years later in a reply to Eugen Fink, he once again claims that the body cannot be thought through ontologically and remarks that the "body phenomenon is the most difficult problem." Martin Heidegger, Heraclitus Seminar, trans. Charles H. Seibert (Evanston: Northwestern University press, 1992), 146
27. See Shapiro, "Jean-Luc Nancy and the Corpus of Philosophy," 61 for a detailed discussion of corpus as a way of representing the unrepresentable
28. See Levin, "The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment."
29. For an extended discussion on touch and knowledge, see Heidegger's discussion in What is Called Thinking? trans. J. Glenn Gray (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), 23
30. Krell, Archeticture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body, 53
31. Edward Casey, The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 249
32. Levin, "The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment,"129
33. Casey, The Fate of Place, 244