"Depth of Embodiment: Spatial and Temporal Bodies in Foucault and Merleau-Ponty" by Helen A Fielding

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Depth of Embodiment: Spatial and Temporal Bodies in Foucault and Merleau-Ponty

Philosophy Today (1999)

Helen A Fielding, The University of Western Ontario

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Abstract

Fielding discusses how Michel Foucault and Maurice Merleau-Ponty view spatial and temporal bodies. Foucault dismisses the understanding of an inside soul surrounded by a body.

Keywords

Merleau-Ponty,
Foucault,
embodiment,
depth,
soul,
surface,
spatiality

Disciplines

Continental Philosophy

Publication Date

Spring 1999

Citation Information

Helen A Fielding. "Depth of Embodiment: Spatial and Temporal Bodies in Foucault and Merleau-Ponty" Philosophy Today Vol. 43 Iss. 1 (1999)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/helen_fielding/11/