The Bodies Against Heidegger

Abstract

This article intends to touch the absence of body in the Heideggerian ontology through the analysis of what Heidegger calls the fundamental experience of thinking. Starting from this point, some thought lines will be shown – that have been passed through by other currents of thought of the 20th century onwards – which have indeed integrated bodies in their ontological constructions. In order to do that, three aspects of the Heideggerian fundamental experience of thinking will be analyzed so as to point out the concrete way in which these are rebuilt from some philosophies of the body. The article will firstly deal with the fundamental experience as the so called in between; secondly with the fundamental experience of thinking as displacement and the making-world bodies; and, finally, with the opening of the difference in the fundamental experience