In the other’s flesh: body and alterity according to Jan Patočka’s phenomenological thought
Abstract
The present work focuses on the key guidelines that direct the reflection of the Czech
phenomenologist Jan Patočka when broaching the question concerning corporality, with the purpose of
relating them in relationship with to the problem of the alterity of the others. So, ultimately, it’s about
examining on what terms a phenomenology of the alterity in which my own body and the others’ body
plays a decisive role is possible, and also showing, at the same time, the limitations linked with such
point of view. These limitations are closely associated to the excessive relevance granted by Patočka to
the “body-object” in the context of intersubjective alterity.
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